Is your wife keeping score?  A funny little article on HOW women tend to keep track of where you are on the richter relationship scale of doing good and staying right..:-)  A bit simple – but probably very true for most of us, right?  You can check out the full story, and see how YOU score at the link below!

At this very moment, I ride a towering wave of relationship points. I pen this while on a plane to the Caribbean, a surprise present to my wife, Julie, and the kids. Seven days in coconut heaven. If ever a man deserved to be smug, I’m the guy.But I’m also in peril, says I. Glebe, author of Points: Women Have Them, Men Need Them. According to Glebe, my points account is fat with "bought points," which are uninsured assets that expire after a few days. Apparently, the gains I enjoyed have long been realized.

In fact, the Royal Bank of Julie may be close to assessing a maintenance fee for low assets. Clearly, a system would help. That’s where Points comes in."Say points and every man in America knows what you’re talking about," explains Glebe, the pen name of Ritch Gaiti, a retired Merrill Lynch vice president. "This code has always existed under the radar, guy to guy. I didn’t invent points.  I just codified a system."Think of your points account, says Glebe, "as a tub you’re trying to fill with water. But at any time, without warning or even good reason, she can pull the plug and drain it dry."

Here’s how to keep the account full. As far as how to spend the interest (a fishing trip? a pub night with the boys? a few hours of tangled limbs?)…it’s your money.

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