Couples’ time management systems: your time, my time or our time?

Time should be understood in relation to others, not as a private matter. Therefore time, including its use and experience, is subject negotiations, power relations inequality. This article utilises the concept of household economy money management systems model explore couples’ practices time. The research questions are: what time can identified, how are couples differentiated? study uses interview data from 22 heterosexual (44 individuals) interviewed 2016 different parts Finland. analysis identifies four types system: (a) female-managed system, (b) male-managed (c) pooling (d) an independent system. contributes existing on family by identifying social aspects