How much do you know about your spouse? Hair colour, date of birth, where they grew up, what they do for a living…how much they earn, perhaps?
Not so much that last one, according to a number of respondents to a popular thread on Mumsnet last week. The proportion of respondents who do not know how much their husbands and partners earn was surprisingly high.
‘I have a rough idea,’ said one. ‘We keep our finances separate. As long as he pays his share of the bills, it doesn’t matter,’ said another.
Really?
Prudential, the insurer, found that 12 per cent of Brits do not tell their partners what they earn. Such is the British paranoia surrounding financial disclosure that some couples are willing to share a bed, a house and sexual preferences with another human being, but not the amount they bring home each month.
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