forever, but right now, a pension is a luxury. I have however, made sure that my husband's company pension has a proviso for me. If he dies before me, I will get either a lump sum which I can invest how I want, or a pension that at least won't see me or the kids destitute. But these company pensions are closing at a rate of several a day and it is a lucky worker that has a good company pension these days. Do you know what type of pension your working other-half has? Is there provision made in it for the non-working half? I see my husband's pension as mine too. I check all his paperwork to make sure that it will provide for both of us, and look at the statements to see how it is doing. I look over all our financial affairs, as does he. We do it together in fact because we both have a stake in the money that he earns in his name. We keep no secrets from each other -- financially anyway (he still doesn't know about this blog). I don't see why you would marry someone and not share everything, but that's just me. I think the main problem for us women is not that we are spending it all on shoes, or that we are too thick to understand the issues, but that we are too skint, and too busy to do anything about it. Do you agree? Why do