Your Money: Joint Bank Accounts

When two people are married they are to become one. I think a joint account helps them to become one. Marriages that get in trouble seem to have some things in common. They cleave but they don't leave. They try to keep all their old friends, do all the things they used to do and never become that "one". That is where the strength is as the two become one and it becomes "our" money instead of his and hers. If you can't trust each other to handle the money you should have never gotten married because you can never be a team. In a team each one does what they are best at. In a marriage where God is the coach and the Bible is the rule book satan will have a hard time breaking it up with his tricks. The team will accomplish much and be the source of strength and the standard of behavior for the children. If the wife wants to stay home and not have an outside job but be the manager of the home the key is becoming a team. In business a man finds it hard to compete against another man whose wife is managing the home and supporting his efforts in every way. Financially a team does much better as they decide where their money goes rather than making sure they spend their part.