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  One nice thing about having separate finances is that a couple can still make meaningful financial gestures of caring to one another.
  Combine finances, and treating someone to a date or buying a gift seems less meaningful, because those gestures are made from shared resources.
  Different spending priorities can also be a source of conflict in a marriage.  If partners agree on shared expenses and shared saving plans, and both partners stick to that, then there can be less arguments or guilt over frivolous spending if the money is spent from a personal account.
  every partnership is going to be different.  Having separate accounts can both head of some marital disagreements AND enable some loving gestures in some couples.  
  Maybe your partnership isn't one of those.  But, for some partners, this kind of approach is helpful
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