Worried Wealthy Slapping on Pounds, Losing Spouses

“I literally had to sit there and tell him that he had to tell his wife that she had to stop spending.He was actually scared she would leave him because their financial situation changed so drastically." - Manhattan divorce lawyer Nancy Chemtob on a client whose net worth had dropped from $20 million to $8 million.

From a Sunday New York Times article on the economic anxieties wracking the merely rich--and how these anxieties, from weight gain to marital strife, are making themselves known.