You can live with the combined income, but not quite comfortably. Finance need to be calculated properly, and if you have browse the finance section even once, it is enough to make you realise a lot about money. Assuming you are talking about gross, not net. If you are talking about net income, then it is good.

5k - epf - income tax - commitments & entertainment = your real $

Don't forget you need pay house, car, phone, girls, entertainment, etc etc etc.

Though, it is up to a person how good lifestyle does he/she want, if good lifestyle = less savings. Some below the income bracket 1k with 5 children also can survive. And they say everything here is expensive, but yet all still can afford go shopping every week, roads are jammed up everywhere.

Love is one part of the relationship. Another part would be sharing burdens as well. Life is not a linear line, it has ups and down.

This post has been edited by WannaGetBuffed: Sep 8 2008, 04:58 PM