never heard of it <| sep |> If only they ' d done that 6 years ago when they got into office when we had better finances . They wasted an entire term in office focusing on cutting the deficit without any thought to fiscal stimulus . No wonder everybody voted for Brexit . If only . It ' s too late now , the damage has been done , there ' s no way to regain the output that has been lost by austerity , not to mention the skills and ideas that would ' ve entered the economy and the personal damage it has done to people . Also note that extra spending is nearly all 34 years out , there ' s nothing in the pipeline until then . As little as it is at least it ' s something . <| sep |> Not everyone combines finances , so it ' s not that strange for him to now want to , but what is strange is the way he does things . There are much simpler ways out there ! For example , my boyfriend and I just split our grocery money household stuff we do pay equally from our separate accounts . This is because he eats like a ravenous rhino and I eat like a human being . So , to keep things fair , we just contributed fixed amounts like your 6040 split every month . That way no matter how much we spend at the grocery store at any given time , there ' s no funky math involved . We will always end up paying our prearranged amounts , because that ' s what ' s in the account . Previously , we would switch off buying groceries and sometimes someone would get screwed over if it happened to be a particularly expensive trip . I would maybe look into doing something like that ? Instead of combining existing accounts , create a new one together for shared expenses . And if you don ' t want to be working with a prefixed amount like my SO and I do with groceries you can work off of a shared credit card , and at the end of the month you pay 60 % of the bill and he pays the remainder . Something like that just seems easier to me . Totally separate , but you two should find some kind of couples counselingmoney management class . That way you can work out a system for ifwhen you get married and your stuff is actually combined .