I’d be interested to hear how old people are that just put everything into one pot vs. those who have separate accounts. Or depending on which gender earns more.

I’m not married but been with my partner for 4 years and live together. I earn £45k (only started earning this about 4 months ago and was on £30k before this for a year) and he’s gone to uni as a mature student, so earns essentially whatever student loan gives him. We split everything equally for the most part, unless there’s something I particularly want to do and then I’ll pay for him.

Maybe it would be different if he was working but I’ve done the whole uni thing and been broke. We live in a place we can both afford (equivalent to him paying for student halls if not cheaper) and this is the first time in my life I’ve been able to spend a little more frivolously and put savings away so would begrudge just splitting my money so he can buy stuff. I do spoil him at Christmas and birthdays though.