Are you the senior financial partner in your relationship?
Is looking after your household's finances a shared job, or is one of a couple the senior financial partner – taking charge of decisions about insurance, energy bills, investments, debts and more?
Choose one option closest to your own circumstances:
Results
| I’m single/not living with partner |  |
2258 votes (18%) |
| We live together (not married): My partner is in charge, I don’t know much | |
130 votes (1%) |
| We live together (not married): We share the responsibility | |
676 votes (5%) |
| We live together (not married): We keep finances mostly separate | |
611 votes (5%) |
| We live together (not married): I’m in charge, they don’t know much | |
1377 votes (11%) |
| We’re married (or civil partners): My partner is in charge, I don’t know much | |
466 votes (4%) |
| We’re married (or civil partners): We share the responsibility | |
1838 votes (15%) |
| We’re married (or civil partners): We keep finances mostly separate | |
485 votes (4%) |
| We’re married (or civil partners): I’m in charge, they don’t know much | |
4694 votes (37%) |
| I’m single/not living with partner | |
889 votes (14%) |
| We live together (not married): My partner is in charge, I don’t know much | |
50 votes (1%) |
| We live together (not married): We share the responsibility | |
345 votes (5%) |
| We live together (not married): We keep finances mostly separate | |
270 votes (4%) |
| We live together (not married): I’m in charge, they don’t know much | |
632 votes (10%) |
| We’re married (or civil partners): My partner is in charge, I don’t know much | |
177 votes (3%) |
| We’re married (or civil partners): We share the responsibility | |
1144 votes (18%) |
| We’re married (or civil partners): We keep finances mostly separate | |
334 votes (5%) |
| We’re married (or civil partners): I’m in charge, they don’t know much | |
2450 votes (39%) |
18,826 votes received.
We try to use technology to limit voting to one per person. Occasionally, this may erroneously block a few people's votes (eg, from shared offices). Apologies for that.
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