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Couple and money: are separate accounts the key to happiness?

2021-01-29T14:43:56.214Z


SURVEY - Finding their financial and family balance, more and more couples are choosing to bank separately. On the condition of betting on transparency on the financial side.


A mad

"craving for vodka"

seized her that day.

A shot to forget what awaits!

Once a year, Camille installs an RTT.

Her husband too.

No romantic getaway in sight.

These Parisian quadras meet for a much less aphrodisiac goal: to do their accounts.

He opens his Excel table, her, his notebook.

“I dread this moment, I don't like

talking about money,

explains Camille, a 42-year-old consultant.

The father of his two children, Baptiste, an entrepreneur, is a mathematician: he has no problem figuring out who paid what in the year, and who paid the least.

"In general, it is I who owe him, so we work out between us,"

says Camille.

Until their next annual arithmetic tête-à-tête, she breathes.

To read also: The couple and love: are we too demanding?

To avoid apothecary arguments, the couple found their recipe: separate accounts.

Each his banker.

Everyone has their own expenses.

As Baptiste earns twice as much as Camille, he takes care of the nanny, the bills, the private school.

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Source: lefigaro

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