looking for some perspective. I’ve been sharing a home with a partner for a while and we split our shared expenses proportionally to our share of the household income, based on gross income (i.e. I make 60% and pay 60% (at least, often more) of what we’ve agreed are the shared expenses). we then do our best to evenly split household chores and tasks as we choose.
another option could be to structure contributions such that we have equal personal money after making our shared contributions.
I’d think it would be simple to determine what a “fair share is” but in practice it’s not, plus I’m facing criticism for my focus on “fairness” itself in this sort of exchange.
how do you do things? is it working for you?
Do what you can when you can, contribute what you got when you got it.
I make most of the money and have the most normal schedule so I pay 60% of the rent, do 70% of the cooking, 60% of the chores and pay for 100% of the groceries. My partner saves what they can and shares the rest with their dependent mother.