I got a kick out of watching CNBC this week on multiple fronts. The first happened right after famed CNBC “Money Bunny”, Maria Bartiromo went ballistic seemingly yelling at CNBC viewers when she found out that Congress had not passed the bailout.

She seemed to take it personally that voters were calling in to bad mouth the so called wall street fat cats. No doubt Ms. Bartiromo has made many wall street friendships as her celebrity has risen among the wall street elite and now downtrodden. Given this closeness, I suppose she sees these titans of greed as something more than what they really are.

I couldn’t help but wonder if there was something more going on inside her head. Maybe she saw herself losing her job like so many at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers did. If the smartest guys in the room outside of Enron could go down then nobody was safe she might have thought. Maybe she saw herself on camera walking home with a cardboard box after being laid off. Maybe she wondered if her significant other would love her less when she came home?

I hope that Ms. Bartiromo has a warm and loving place to come home to that’s full of love and understanding. Unfortunately for many others this will not be the case. Many men after losing their job or fortune will come home and not know how to communicate their pain and frustration with their spouse or girlfriend. Many wives will not know what to do for their men in tough situations like layoffs, demotions and other financial calamities.

What’s more, their marriages may have already been empty shells before a financial hardship hit them. If a man and a woman weren’t communicating before a financial crisis, they most likely wouldn’t be ready to improve it afterwords.

What would you do?

Tomorrow, I’ll be giving my Three Point Plan to help save the lost relationship between Maria, CNBC and their woebegone audience. So stay tuned!

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