How to Hide Money From Your Husband : The Best Kept Secret of Marriage

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Summary: STUPENDOUS! FUNNY AND INFORMATIVE
Review: How this book was not a best seller is a major mystery to me! It is the most informative and accessible book of its kind, empowering women to save money for a rainy day even if the sun is shining right now! I bought my own wife a copy!

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Summary: What's good for the goose....
Review: I have mixed feelings about this book.

It makes some good points, like finding out about all the checks your spouse may get (such as uniform allowances), but I feel that its underlying message is about deception in your marriage, by hiding money away. It promotes hiding money, instead of educating you in how to equally partner with your spouse in how you deal with money. It also deals with the issue 'way after the fact, instead of say, providing a list of "warning signs" about money that you should look before thinking about marriage.

Also, if it is "always" okay for a wife to hide money, why is it "always" wrong for the husband to do so? Fair is fair. Men aren't the only ones who are spendthrifts, or drop everything to run away with a new lover. If your spouse is a spendthrift, find an honest way to deal with the problem instead of squirrelling money away.

And this person recommends you put your name as a wife on everything except your tax returns. Huh? Always file separately? If you can't trust your spouse to do the taxes, why are you still married to him? And who says YOU can't pay to have the taxes done?

I got the feeling that this book was really written for the older (let the man handle the money) generation, not for today's woman who should know better. It also seems to be geared more towards people who live in (and get divorced in) "equitable distribution" states, not community property states, since it talks about spending money to "establish a lifestyle pattern" to figure out future support. And that's another thing, it seems to look at a nest egg as some sort of emergency escape fund, which again, seems to see marriage as something that will fail, so you better plan ahead. Huh? Why get married at all then?

I will say that if you are planning to get a divorce, this would be a good book to look at.