Eight Reasons Why a Bad Economy Relates to a Good Relationship

It's plenty rough around the edges - but you might still get the point...

Eight Reasons Why a Bad Economy Relates to a Good Relationship

8. Mediocre job growth leaves you or your neighbor looking for work - while mediocre job satisfaction leaves your spouse coming home and needing a shoulder to cry on.

7. Evidently there is a “lag” - a period in time where there is catching up – like the unemployment numbers and like having a discussion about refilling the ice tray - good discussion, but it still isn't filled.

6. There are short spikes (upticks/downticks) in the economy, which don't necessarily mean it's tanking nor soaring – much like make-up sex – it seems good, it was a nice jolt, but is it really solving the fundamental issue?

5. Sometimes a bad economy needs a big push - like a war, or how about cold fusion – to break out of the doldrums. Unfortunately, sometimes a good relationship needs a big push as well  - not a night away from the kids, but perhaps a weekend, or a week...  a season? (I wonder what Grandma and Grandpa are doing next spring?)

4. Stimulus helps to stabilize the current era, increasing the cost for future era; like scratching your spouses back, and hitting the spot, but then they come back asking for more and also wondering if you wouldn't mind pinching the shoulders, rubbing the bunyons and perhaps fixing some tea...   ;P

3. Tax reductions increase the spending pennies in your individual pocket; but then, as a whole, you're paying less down on accrued, existing, debt. In a good relationship you don't walk down into the basement together, to see the piles of stuff, (did we really think we would use that track glider thing?) accrued over time, outta site - outta mind, and turn to the other and say "Ok, well I have a fantasy football draft scheduled in an hour, so lets get to cleaning but I will be out most of the day." Nope you don't say that, instead you roll up your sleeves to pay the price and get it over with so that into the future that basement will be cleaned (and then you can have that fantasy football draft down there complete with little smokies, hot wings and something to drink, let me think here.... ).

2. They say that as the housing market picks up - it's a sign that economic steam is building, folks are feeling more confident, the growth is moving forward. They also say that when a man picks up - his clothes, the children's toys, maybe the dishes; he is feeling more confident, better about himself and maybe looking forward to certain future endeavors.

1. Eventually, society does the math and faces the facts. The economy is struggling, we as individuals need to assist in the change action and not by ignoring it or sowing deeper hate and resentment, but by working together for some forward thinking act, towards a level of mutual satisfaction. Be it on the street corner, in the corporate boardroom or the congressional back office. In a good relationship, you may argue over what is being made for dinner tonight, one of you walks away - out the front door - pounding your frustrations into the pavement (causing earthquakes on the other side of the world) - but then you walk back, into the house, to resolve the issue, realizing that there are two viewpoints and there has to be some common ground and that chicken two nights in a row isn't the end of the world. (Theres fried chicken, theres breaded chicken, theres barbeque chicken, theres chicken nuggets...)

Notes:
- 10 Similarities Between a Bad Economy and a Good Relationship
- reduce your current affection rate to then find that down the road, suddenly, there are piles of overdue bills and IOUs and that ..... swing batter batter batter
- is a hole, and it needs to be filled, by what you don't know because you've lost track in the real investment that two loving people offer each other and the world. (Do you?)

Gotta love that drummer...  ;)