Marriage and Money: Why Gift Giving Stopped

On this 19th Valentines Day with my wife (including those while we dated), I decided to buy my wife a gift for the first time in almost nine years. (Shhh… don’t tell her as I haven’t given it to her yet.) It wasn’t because I didn’t want to but because we completely stopped giving gifts to each other almost nine years ago. And not just for Valentines Day but for all occasions. Birthdays? Nope. Anniversary? Nope. Chanukah? Nope.