Buying a home together as a couple Buying a home together as a couple is one of the biggest financial partnerships two people ever enter — usually with a lot more romance and a lot less paperwork than the moment deserves. The house-hunting part is the fun part. The part that actually protects you both happens earlier, in conversations most couples skip: How do we budget as a team? Whose name goes on what? What happens to the house if life doesn't go the way we planned? I have