Comments on: Emotional bank accounts

By: Little Debbie

Little Debbie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:16:56 +0000

My husband donated blood for Valentine’s Day at my request. It was an inexpensive present (plus he got a free t-shirt from the Red Cross) and meant more than anything purchased.

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Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:03:32 +0000

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By: The Simple Dollar » The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: Two Reader Mailbags Per Week (?) Edition

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:01:51 +0000

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By: Community In Action - It’s V-Day | The Happy Rock

Community In Action - It’s V-Day | The Happy Rock — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:30:20 +0000

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By: Blog Share - Emotional Bank Accounts « Tookshire

Blog Share - Emotional Bank Accounts « Tookshire — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:30:13 +0000

[...] read it like I would a magazine, when up popped a little gem on how important it is to tend to our Emotional Bank Accounts as well. So many of the scenarios used as examples, my husband and I lived through while learning [...]

By: Tookshire

Tookshire — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:22:22 +0000

Relatively new reader (via bloglines). I have to say that I really appreciate your including a posting on emotional bank accounts among your financial posts. When my husband and I first married (and for a few years thereafter) it was really a lot of work to transform our idealized way of handling finances into real life. The most difficult was while we had the same goal in mind, we had widely different philosophies in how to get there. And some of our philosophies were bunk, let me tell you. The same thing is true of our emotional bank accounts. Much of what you used as examples were our real life hurdles, including my not seeing his waiting until Valentine’s Day to scrounge around for something as reflecting my worth/value in his eyes..but, hey, it was better than when he forgot completely, LOL. I laugh now, but it did hurt, but while we now have come to a mutual compromise of I get him nothing and he must have something 3-days prior (and we make it a small thing like a candybar or grocery store flowers plus a cheapy/free activity that equates to valuable time together).

By: Nicki at Domestic Cents

Nicki at Domestic Cents — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:23:38 +0000

I really like your “Grab Coffee.” How silly that we do that with other people but not each other. It’s talking for hours that’s kept us in love this long.

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:29:35 +0000

V Day is the only day of the year I get a hand made card from my husband. Yes, I’m talking construction paper, macaroni noodles, and cotton balls. It is short (only a couple of sentences) and sometimes has a picture (like a dog or cat or car). It is usually about what is going on in our lives at the moment. For example, when our cat died, he drew a picture of her w/wings. Another year Ric Flair was on a “comeback” and there was a picture of him on that card saying “nature boy” with a cotton ball heart around the picture. It is a lot of fun to take out the box of them and walk down memory lane. Then we have dinner w/a candle burning in a candle holder we got from our wedding. Maybe this year I’ll get a picture of a budget spreadsheet – hahaha! – since we are working on getting out of debt.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:37:01 +0000

We rarely celebrate Valentine’s Day, but the first one we spent together, we weren’t even dating. My now-hubby bought me flowers in a mug with a card. Every now and then, he’ll buy me flowers in a mug with a card, and he will write the same thing on the card as he did that first year. Those are my favorite valentines gifts!

By: Miranda

Miranda — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:24:22 +0000

We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. But we do try to do nice things for each other throughout the year to build up that emotional bank account! After all, you need something in there to draw upon during the rough patches…