Re: For the Independent women - Depending on others?
IMO, I think it is degrading - makes the other person feel slightly worthless. For example, if a wife has to ask her husband for £5 to buy a sack of potatoes. I don’t think she should have to ask for something so little like £5.
Like BarbieCue said, it would be better to place money in a drawer so the spouse could take it whenever s/he wants, to avoid such a feeling.