"I saved two million, and you're saying I can't even use $10,000 of it?" I inhaled deeply, striving to stay calm.
"Shouldn't you have discussed it with me first?"
Brian threw his fork into the meal I had prepared, turning our quiet dinner instantly into a battleground.
"Your secretary, Janet, keeps saying how busy you are, and you never answer my calls, right?"
I lost it, standing up and confronting Brian.
"I'm the marketing director at Malone Group, busy day in and day out. Janet gets it. Unlike you, who turns every little thing into an end-of-the-world scenario," he shot back.
"Enough diversions. Just tell me where the money went!" I steered us back to the core issue.
Suddenly sheepish, Brian then struck a pose, smirking confidently.
"I invested it in the stock market. You have no idea how booming the market is! It's like nothing we've seen since 2008!"
This wasn't his first stock market rodeo. With his salary, we could have easily saved enough within a year.
When the market was down, he'd always talk about "buying the dip," but it only sank further, plunging us into debt by one million, which took two years to clear. He had promised to quit trading then.