Would you think I was very rude if I asked how much you were?

Would that be an uncomfortable question?

Oh, they may not.

Yes, it might get a bit awkward here on the BBC World Service over the next hour.

Money and the distribution of power in our most intimate relationships

are topics we can get a little sensitive around.

I'm sorry to not give you the answer you want but like I don't

know I I don't look at it that way. We're going to go behind closed doors and into the private lives of couples and their

bank accounts and their pockets.

Because I ask you to get your wallets out, your purses out.

Oh, scary.

Would you have anything to hide?

And what does the way you handle your money

say about your closest relationship?

He was uncomfortable with the whole eye make less, you make more, so, and then that made me feel like, oh, I have to be smaller and quieter so that you could feel bigger.

I'm Emily Thomas and this is what's mine is yours.

An exploration into how what we earn and how we share it influences the power in our relationships.

It's part of a new season on the BBC World Service exploring how our lives are shaped and

reshaped by money and the power that comes with it.

Across the globe the number of women participating in the labour market is rising

and I want to find out what effect their increased earnings

are having on the power dynamics between couples.

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