My husband and I both work is my money mine or his money or do we have to share an account like I don't even know if the

Bible even addresses that but it is a thing like this is my money. This is his money. So

The Bible doesn't directly address it, but indirectly I think it's there to become one.

It's strange that to become one and to bank accounts don't become one like

You're mine and I'm yours, but what's mine is mine? What's yours is yours?

This is fundamentally in conflict with the idea of unity and marriage.

So, you know, Scripture talks about how the wife she has authority over her husband's body.

The husband has authority over his wife's body, but like finances are totally separate.

It creates a lot of conflict too, statistically. This is kind of cool. There's an interesting study on this topic just

published in 2022 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. It's called pooling finances and

relationship satisfaction. And they actually pooled the results of six different studies, so it's kind of a meta-analysis.

On couples who did and did not pool their finances and the conclusions were couples who pool their finances have greater

satisfaction and relationship are less likely to break up and it's especially true of couples who have less

money. And it's especially helpful for couples in individualistic cultures like the US or UK as opposed to

Japan where they have more of a collectivist culture. And so it's an interesting real world statement.

They're like, hey, look, there's like a biblical thing that's kind of working. Surprise, you know.

Now, when you might not want to pool finances, if there's major addiction issues, if there's gambling issues,

or if there's abuse issues that make it where at any moment you might have to flee, that's when you might start

secretly keeping money aside so that you could support that possible thing because that's a dangerous

moment and you need to be able to have somewhere to go.

That's a really good point. I like that.