Should you combine finances with your spouse / significant other?

I personally think so, but this is a fairly divisive issue.

I personally do this, although a lot of my close friends don't. There's 64.6 million Google search results off this concept, so clearly it's something people think about from time to time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mint has the No. 1 Google hit (at least for my own algorithm of using Google) and most of the issue comes around to trust. That's logical -- I…