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Today's question comes from Adrian in Georgia.

Adrian writes,

My fiancé and I are in our 70s.

Ah, that girl, Adrienne.

I love it.

And planning on marrying in the next six months.

Dude, yes.

We're going to end up at the end with

no tread left on the tires. Good for you. I've heard your advice on always combining finances as a

married couple. However, I'm not sure if that's a reasonable path when both parties have children

from previous marriages. What's the best approach here? That's a great question.

That is a great question. Yes. Yeah, because, you know, they're, yes, you guys as an entity,

as a married couple, you're going to be dealing with finances together. You're going to be doing

paying household bills, like working as a team on all of that but it always raises an interesting point when there

are grown children involved from previous families and you know do you suddenly combine the

family just because you got married in your 70s and everyone's equal you know what I mean like all

of that and yeah and I lean towards keeping it separate still at this at stage of life, I mean, in my head, I'm like,

like your immediate family before this marriage was pretty much done.

I mean, like, grown kids, you've done your job.

You've made your life.

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