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“We divide all our expenses in half”: young couples and money, from everything in common to every man for himself

2024-03-17T15:17:10.938Z

Highlights: Young French people today prefer to remain the sole owners of their finances. People in their late thirties organize their spending using an application usually popular with groups of friends on vacation or roommates. “There is a whole imagination around the couple which makes us believe that their assets must be merged. But this is less and less true for many people,” confirms sociologist and author Hélène Belleau. These changes in money management methods within the couple reflect changes…


STORY - If their parents married under the community regime and quickly created a joint account, young French people today prefer to remain the sole owners of their finances. Is right ?


Guillaume* and Lucie* found each other well.

People in their late thirties, who have been in a relationship for 10 years, organize their spending using an application usually popular with groups of friends on vacation or roommates,

“Tricount”

.

The very “practical”

platform

distributes expenses over time and automatically calculates the reimbursements to be made.

At every restaurant, every errand, every trip, lovers pull out their phones.

“We know exactly where we are,”

assures Lucie, with a smile on her lips

.

And at least money is never a subject of dispute between us.”

Today, would good accounts really make good couples?

Separate management in the name of equality

“There is a whole imagination around the couple which makes us believe that their assets must be merged.

But this is less and less true for many people

,” confirms sociologist and author Hélène Belleau.

These changes in money management methods within the couple reflect changes…

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Source: lefigaro

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