Want to pose a question

Want to pose a question. If you wanted to open a separate checking account to pay bills with that wasnt joint acct with your wife, so you go and open it without her knowledge. Would that be considered underhanded or sneaky.

After having to deal with debits and expenditures on a joint checking account with my wife, and sitting at kitchen table every week for an hour at a clip getting frustrated figuring it out to square it up, i decided to just open a separate acct to deal with paying bills, and never told her. So she asks me this morning if i did that, i told her yes, and why. So she says its underhanded and sneaky even though i showed her the register, and its all either bills, or gas in the car. I figured i was gonna get an argument either way because every week its an issue about who owes what to the acct. We both work full time. I figured this was a way to not argue, since i was no longer using the joint acct. So it blew up on me anyways

Curious as to what you think.
Matt

Should have told her, nobody reacts well to secrets regardless of what the reason.

For us, other than business accounts all the $ goes into one account. Been 33 years and we both have done the bill paying at different time. Never been my money or her money issues. We both ask out of respect before any significant spending. Honestly I don't understand a marriage where some things are not shared?

That being said what works for me may not work for you!