Iphone 5 not remembering wifi password

no matter what I do, once I leave the house and come back the phone does not automatically join my wifi and if I do it manually I have to enter the password again and again. Very annoying to say the least, and something trivial that should just work. I did a reset on the networking part, still same problem.
Might be just me, this is my first iphone, but it seems like this should just work without me having to do much thinking or fiddling?

Phantelope - This is a new issue with iPhone 5 - worked find with my 3 and 4.  Also when I transfered from my i4 to 5 the setting where saved. The issue was with my wife's phone, it was new to our network so it didn't have any saved seting to transfer over.
One last comment - I see the inital post was from September - You would like to think that one of the OS updates since then would have fixed this.

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