It is that time down here in the U.S. to do taxes. Sometime in the next week I am going to have to tell my wife I lost around 90% of our life savings in SLI (she does not know). Yeah, it was only around $19,000 but when you are poor and that is all you have and you had had hopes this investment would allow an adequate retirement and now those hopes are squashed what do you tell your wife? She was depending on me and I was depending on SLI and Lori. Obviously, telling my wife has been weighing on my mind heavily for months.

Her sister divorced her husband when she found out he had run up debts, gotten them into financial trouble, etc., all beyond her knowledge. I don't think that will happen at all but it may or may not change our relationship. It certainly has changed my thoughts about myself, my self respect, and I fear my wife is going to look at me in a wholly different way than in the past--like you fool (which is the way I feel). Or, will I become an object of sympathy (just what every man wants, right)? At least we are not in debt.

What I am saying to Lori, that is if I could, is that this has not been just about money but about lives. Lives have been changed. What did you really mean in that TV interview when they asked you when you thought you had made it in this business and you said "now?" What did you mean? Why did you say it? What made you think you had made it "now?" Was it just by the fact you had gotten on TV? Who do you know who thinks you have made it? Why would they think that? Just curious.

P.S. No sympathetic responses please. I know a lot of you guys are in the same boat and have been hurt bad. I wish you "all" well.