brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today i was just wondering i've been

dating my boyfriend for about a year now and we're starting to talk about marriage um he's Australian

and um basically we were talking about finances and he would want to keep them, like, completely separate.

He earns, like, a little over double what I earn.

He just bought his first house as well.

And it concerns me.

He also mentioned maybe wanting me to sign a pre-up.

And I just feel not secure maybe marrying and having kids

with somebody who feels, you know, finances should be 100% separate. So I was kind of wondering

what y'all's thoughts were if you had any advice for me on this topic, basically moving

forward. Yeah. Did he give you reasons why he wants to keep it separate?

Is it because of the amount he earns?

Is it something that happens in his past?

His parents, like, did he give you reasons why?

Yeah, pretty vague.

His parents did get divorced, but on fairly good terms.

I think the income disparity is a bit

of an issue for him, which I don't not understand. But I think mainly he just wants to feel

that he's in control of the money that he's earned. We were talking about it last night,

actually, and he was saying, well, I don't believe that it would be our money, you know, if we were married.

What I earned is like my money.

So it would be his house, his money, and you just get the privilege of living there at a discounted rate?

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