My husband has been diagnosed bi-polar. It has caused problems with employment during the six years of our marriage. He has had 14 jobs in the last 6 years. I have recently been diagnosed with several medical problems, the worst of which is Crohn's Disease and they are still trying to find a way to treat my symptoms. Insurance coverage had become a necessity and my husband's employment was where we had that coverage. I have none at my job. The day before Thanksgiving, during one of his rages, he walked out on his job. Which of course left us with the problem of how to maintain that insurance.....BIG BUCKS!! Then as if things weren't bad enough he went into a rage directed at me. He finally left the house but when he left he spent several hundred dollars on partying and left our finances in a major bind. I had filled all of our prescriptions (mine are over $200 with insurance coverage, about $1000 without). Anyway.......I said all of that to say, I just opened a checking account in my name only and put my most recent paycheck and my Christmas bonus. Well, he is not happy with this. I intend to pay our bills. I have not asked him to leave the house. (which is in my name, only) I only opened the account so that I could insure he would not be able to do what he did, again.

Please give me your opinion. Was I wrong to open the account? I don't plan to keep the amount in the account a secret from him. I just am not going to allow him to have access to it.

I want to hear what others think of my solution.