Study: Women make more family, finance decisions than men

[shootingstar]

In all fairness to those who are single/unattached..will answer what I am like before I met my partner and since then..

He likes keeping detailed spending on key monthly expenses ..an Excel spreadsheet freak..yea well, those with engineering LOVE..

So I let him pay and know in great detail if wanted to.
From the investment side we are independent ..it's a carry-over of when I managed my own finances and owned a home..I continue to make my own investment decisions but we do swap tips with each other. Have to say that already carries a certain weight of responsiblity and time, given today's financial markets.

It does help when both of us were raised in poor families where each of us grew, highly conscious of costs and ways to budget. How many people can say that they knew the cost of their parents' home when they were 15 yrs. old? I did, but then it was a rundown house, my parents' first home after 1-bedroom apartment with 5 children...in Ontario.

I grew up in a home where my parents discussed their finances and spending plans in considerble detail with one another. They didn't care...it was all in Chinese and we only understood half of what they were saying. Nevertheless my mother seemed to do all sorts of mathematical calculations in her head...a woman with gr. 10 education...while my father watched. He has gr. 12 ed.