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Old 07-15-2010, 09:21 PM   #136
Maggie Leung
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Originally Posted by joblack View Post
How about 'I want to buy it and it's my money'.

I never got the paradigm of asking your girlfriend/wive/ ... if you could spend your money.
Depends on the relationship. My husband and I treat it as our money, and we think very similarly about how to spend or not. I don't care if he buys a new computer or such without telling me, and vice versa. Neither of us would show up with a new car unannounced. We've moved cross-country over the years, and my husband has trusted me to buy new homes unseen by him.
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