This great article discusses how bargaining power can be used in order for households to make their utility functions equal. If both people included in the household do not have the same utility functions but are subject to the same budget and time constraint, the exisence of the household is under question.
I will not be able to go into details about the complications and the decision-making problems posed for each member of the household, neither to evaluate their utility curves. But the article shows how utility functions can actually be applied to real life to evaluate and bargain with your partners
http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-6598(198002)21%3A1%3C31%3AMAHDAB%3E2.0.CO;2-J&cookieSet=1
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