Did Your Relationship & Your Portfolio Suffer This Week?

Have you been arguing or bickering with your boyfriend or husband this week...more than usual?

Have these spats often been about rather silly or trivial topics?

If so, I bet that at least one of you has money invested in the stock market. Am I right?

With this week's roller coaster ride on Wall Street, finances, which often are a source of disagreement among couples, have been keeping many people awake this week.

So what did you argue about the past few days? If you are a shopaholic and your credit card bills showed up, I am sure your "sweetie" was not thrilled with the amount due...that is if you showed him the statement.

This also was probably not a good week to mention that one of you thinks that it's time to paint the bedroom or repair the dilapidated front yard fence.

Perhaps one of you has a rather large wager on the Red Sox to win the AL East, and the excruciating 2-1 loss to Tampa Bay on Tuesday, followed by a 10-3 shellacking on Wednesday (the same day the market dropped 454 points) did not put the wagerer in a particularly good mood Thursday morning.

Anyway, if this has been a rough week for your relationship, perhaps it may be just a bit comforting to know that you are not alone.

Not at all.