毫不意外， 對浸潤在華人甚至亞洲文化裡的男女， 看到令堂顧全大局， 視老公上酒家逢場作戲為[小德出入可也]， 但求以高妙廚藝與自管帳房拴住老公， 都鼓掌叫好。
但西方文化則不然， 大家固然理解為何美國國務卿希拉蕊原諒前美國總統克林頓屢次偷腥 ，但接受歐美婚姻觀者不會稱許此種容忍老公在外小玩男女關係，
只要別鬧到婚變的情況為[大老婆的智慧]， 只會當作政客為政壇前途盤算的務實作風， 寫此對照， 不是要褒貶東西方婚姻觀，
只是因你ricardo此文男人再笨也要會算術而想到這種文化差異。
然而，不論是對配偶或專業人士，即使自願讓渡理財大權，絕不能從此不聞不問。美國頂尖懸疑小說名女作家Patricia Cornwell與其同性終身伴侶哈佛大學神經科學家Staci Gruber號稱全美最聰明的女人之二，將其資產全部交由Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP投資顧問公司打理，長達四年半，從未收到結算其投資報酬的財務報表，竟然渾然不覺狀況詭異，直到今年十月13號發現兩人損失四千萬美金。管好帳的確是聰明女人的必備法寶！
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補充: 後來讀到燕回應文，談及現代東方老婆對老公外遇容忍的限度壓縮，茲轉述如下：<2007/08/07 10:46
我想離婚率變多的原因不外乎外遇與暴力！而這兩個原因以前的婦女因價值觀與道德觀，都可以忍受、包容、甚至打心底原諒。
但現在的婦女可不是這麼想。當女性在思想上有了改變，男性是否也跟著成長。目前很多中年男性還是以為不過是約會個幾次(酒店狂歡後的續攤或是各自到她家)，老婆就鬧離婚。真是沒度量！！還拿孩子當藉口要女性多替孩子著想。
燕自己很幸福，說起婚姻真的是要互愛、互信、戶諒！但別以為出了外遇這種大錯誤，還要人家原諒而不自省。>http://blog.udn.com/kenshin/1091951
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燕(fshuyen) 於 2009/10/27 14:42 回覆： | 若是說明本文出處、作者名稱與連結。請放心引用！！這是燕對婚姻的態度 |
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Did the accountant murder Patricia Cornwell's nest egg?
 It's
a mystery Kay Scarpetta, the fictional medical examiner and heroine of
the hugely successful mystery novels written by Patricia Cornwell,
would love to tackle. However, in a plot twist that Cornwell wouldn't
dare to conjure up, this mystery is real.
Gone missing is the $40 million personal fortune of Cornwell and her spouse, Staci Gruber, a Harvard neuroscientist.
While Scarpetta may pursue every minute clue in an effort to find the
culprit, the brainy duo of Cornwell and Gruber seem to be clueless when
it comes to keeping track of their finances.
In a complaint filed in the Federal Court in Boston on October 13, the
two claim that they are victims of their New York-based accounting and
financial advisory firm, Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP, which they
hired to provide "traditional and non-traditional advisory services."
Among those "non-traditional" services, the two claim the firm said it
"would do everything for its clients including buying and delivering
their toilet paper." At least that would have been value added.
According to the complaint, the financial management firm controlled
every aspect of the financial lives of its clients and provided them
with no information about their assets, liabilities, expenses or net
worth. In the four and a half years in which Anchin ran the couple's
finances, they allegedly lost approximately $40 million, while paying
themselves almost $1 million "all without providing bills, or billing
detail or back-up."
Where did the money go?
That's the remarkable part of this case. The complaint does not specify
a single investment that was made by Anchin, Block & Anchin. There
are some juicy tidbits about unauthorized expenses laid out in the
lawsuit like a $5,000 bat mitvah gift to the daughter of a principal of
Anchin "whom Ms. Cornwell has never met" and a "gift" of $11,000 to a
business associate "who denies ever receiving the funds." Anchin did
not return calls seeking comment by press time.
This is not Cornwell's first foray into the world of litigation. In
2000, she successfully sued an author who falsely claimed her book, The Last Precinct,
copied from his obscure publication. He accused her of being "a nasty,
dirty and ruthless book-burning Nazi." The Federal Court in Virginia
found for Cornwell and granted her a preliminary injunction.
In this latest case, Scarpetta has her work cut out for her. Two of the
brightest women in the country have no idea whether their money was
invested in stocks, bonds or gold or never invested at all.
Now that is a real mystery.
Dan Solin is the author of the newly published book, The Smartest Retirement Book You'll Ever Read (Perigee Books 2009). His prior books include the New York Times bestsellers, The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read and The Smartest 401(k) Book You'll Ever Read. See SmartestInvestmentBook.com. Read more about Dan Solin (引用http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/10/22/did-the-accountant-murder-patricia-cornwells-nest-egg/print/)
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