{"id":387604,"date":"2026-04-08T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:00:07","slug":"they-go-halfsies-but-surprise-hes-loaded-hax-readers-give-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387604\/","title":{"rendered":"They go halfsies, but, surprise! He\u2019s loaded. Hax readers give advice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"F4W5CI4XWRGPRDWU263YBFPE44\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">We asked readers to channel their inner Carolyn Hax and answer this question. Some of the best responses are below.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MDZSIFJ5WBFH5EZTZXIER7PEA4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dear Carolyn: My husband and I have always kept our finances separate. This was something I insisted upon as soon as we started dating seriously. My mother impressed upon me from an early age that women need to be financially independent. We each pay 50 percent of the mortgage and utilities and 100 percent of our own expenses like our clothing or hobbies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We asked readers to channel their inner Carolyn Hax and answer this question. Some of the best responses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,176,61,60,174,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-387604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}