If money were just money, everyone would make rational decisions about it. But it's not. It's very emotionally loaded. Ric Edelman, of Edelman Financial Services in Fairfax, agrees. Money is a symptom, not a cause.
Money is a symbolic and visible form of much deeper problems.
It's never about money. It's always something else. She grew up in a blue-collar household, ashamed of having to wear old clothes to school. He grew up with money, never wanting for much of anything. This Washington couple is now worth millions, but that didn't stop them from bickering about the cost of ketchup.