Success was very loosely defined for me. My parents were like any other middle-American family. Pinching pennies some weeks, spending others. I don t remember having been denied anything that I could want as a child materially or emotionally. However as I got older I could feel where there was tension whenever a money issue would come up.
Money is important.
And it is important to me. I like to earn it, I like to spend it, and I like to have it in my pocket. I do not want to be like my parents, and it flows over into my relationship with my husband, John. We fight over each other s spending habits, I fighting more viciously than he. But I never learned about the power of money per se, until I was on my own, and I could apply that knowledge to what I used to see my parents struggle with.