At the time, I thought I was merely "absorbed in my work," but let's just say my wife found my degree of focus beyond wearisome. You have to do what you believe in, and when one thing you believe in more than anything else is your primary relationship, you need to act like that's your priority.

I didn't know how to do anything but overcompensate in the opposite direction, and avoid anything to do with trading and investing, but now I'd like to think I'm just sufficiently older and wiser to keep everything in balance.