When you’re in a long-term relationship with someone who earns a lot more, it can be hard to know how is best to balance finances.In the spirit of fairness, you might want to split outgoings – things like bills, mortgage or rent payments, and childcare costs – 50/50.But if one person earns thousands more each month, and the other is shouldering much of the mental load, looking after kids, and general running of the household (a series of largely unpaid tasks), resentment can start to grow. Such is the case for one parent, who took to Reddit to explain that since having a baby, they are “realising how tricky it is to balance money fairly”.The parent said their husband earns more, but they provide “most of the childcare” having cut back on work. “We’ve always split things 50/50, but that doesn’t feel right anymore especially when I’m handling most of the day-to-day stuff at home,” they noted.“We’ve talked about it a few times, but it always ends up feeling awkward. He doesn’t want me to feel like I ‘depend’ on him, and I don’t want him to feel like I’m keeping score.”