...If you don't assert your independence (in certain areas), you are not you. You'd be pretending to be someone you are not (a feminized freak-of-nature).
-BT
Thanks for your opinion, BikerThug. Asserting my independence in the area of marital finance to the tune of nearly 10 grand has nothing to do with who I am or who I'm not. I'm the same person I have always been -- except that I might have matured.
Perhaps you feel comfortble spending that amount of money without the blessing of your mate, and perhaps this action would prevent you from feeling like a "feminized freak-of-nature," but to me (and probably to many) an "impermissible" purchase of such magnitude doesn't define who I am and who I'm not.
