Thanks again, WAS, This one is a bit easier to respond to... I get what you are saying about the kids and I working together to get organized. I think we can do that, though as you say, there will be a bit of 'resistance'.
I've been handling the financials for a long time. She doesn't like the management of the CCs at times (rightly so), but the bills are always paid. We have an account that we transfer money into for her monthly grocery shopping, etc., so there are never surprises in the bill paying account. W has several of accounts that I can't access, a savings account where we accumulate the property taxes and Christmas money being the most significant. She recently opened an account for her newly acquired paycheck, which was always agreed would not be for day-to-day expenses, but rather to compensate for the shortfall in college savings. Putting those together couldm I suppose, be an escape fund, if it is, it is. Since AZ is a community property state, I could probably fight that, if push came to shove. Don't know that I would, though, depending.
Guys night out is an excellent idea. I think I will work that in.
Date night? Surely, you jest! Perhaps someday....
I will think of what I can do that I am not, or what I can do better that I am!
