A couple disagrees about whether to merge their money. Speaker B fears Speaker A will send cash home or overspend; Speaker A feels emotionally distant when the argument drags on. Neither gives ground.
I don't want to be married if we're not going to have a joint bank account.
Why can't I have my own personal savings?
We can have that and have a joint bank account.
Where's the problem? You know what's going on? I started making a better amount. She was like, oh, we should make a joint account. I was like, wait, why you didn't tell me that before? She was, no, I'm nervous. I think you're going to be sending your money back home and then doing this, doing that, spending money like crazy. I said, no, why would I change? This is the argument that the two of you have? Yeah. And how does it end? So far we didn't still make the joint account, but you can ask her.
I check out. I completely, like, I mentally, I just check out.
