Happy Valentine's Day, good people! Our gift to you was a marriage related article (We're expanding our repertoire! Is this site maturing?) and the new social stats you see to the right ->.

Let me start by telling you ('you' might mean my readership, or 'you' might mean Mrs. DQYDJ!) that if I did I certainly wouldn't write an article about it!

Still, I enjoy living on the edge. This is an interesting question - is it ever okay to lie to your partner about finances? We've all heard that "money is the leading cause of divorce". While evidence is mixed on that front, the truth is that the number of money fights a couple has is a good predictor of divorce rates. While tossing out lies might avoid a fight now, it might also lead to an even bigger fight in the future. Regardless, let's look at the cases for both. Pick a side!

TGIS! (The 'S' stands for Saturday...) You've made it to another edition of the DQYDJ weekender. Of course, we reserve the right to post this post whenever we please...

It must be the apocalypse, because we were the target of two separate sites this week!

We've had our first major upset of the Republican primary!

On Tuesday, there were 3 major events in the Republican primary calendar. Both Minnesota and Colorado held caucuses while Missouri held a non-binding primary. Going into the night, Santorum was expected to win Missouri (he had been campaigning there, while other candidates had been avoiding it) and likely to win Minnesota as well. Colorado, having similar demographics to Nevada (although having a notably smaller Mormon population) was expected to grant Romney a victory. In fact, prior to voting in Colorado, betting site Intrade had Romney at 97% to win the state. To riff off a common sports phrase? That's why they count the votes!

What sort of cognitive dissonance does it cause when you read a new post in February and the title contains a data in January? Whatamess!

Feel like helping push DQYDJ closer to the top of the world (loosely defined)? We're 2 followers away from 200 on Twitter and 2 likes away from 65 on Facebook.

Don't Quit Your Day Job is a site which varies between many types of articles - Personal Finance, Politics, Investing, Economics, Random. One of those categories, Investing, has been given short shrift in order to make way for more articles in the other categories. Today we plant a stake; 'Investing' will now have a featured article monthly, where we'll use options to try to determine the outlook for the S&P 500 in the near future. Since this is the first article, let's discuss the method we will use to predict movement.

You're back reading the Weekender! Happy weekend!

Let's dig into the best articles of the week!

Well, Newt Gingrich took down previous favorite Mitt Romney in a shocker in South Carolina. What can we say about the upset? These exit poll posts will continue until morale improves!

You can read the cross-tabs here.

You've got an IRA, right? This site has been preaching the tax benefits of both traditional and Roth IRAs since the beginning... and we aren't going to stop now. So hopefully you've been diligently saving in your IRA, with the hope that some day you'll have a couple million dollars in there (or at least a good amount of funds you can tap in retirement).

Mitt Romney, it was revealed in financial disclosure documents, has an Individual Retirement Account worth somewhere between $20.7 and $101.6 million dollars. Note that IRAs have a small limit when compared to 401(k)s and other employer retirement accounts, so this came as somewhat of a shock to people with IRAs. How did Mr. Romney achieve such an impressive sum in his retirement account?

Can you ever forgive us for blacking out the site Wednesday? You can? Okay... then hopefully you'll forgive a bit more ranting on the issue in this edition of the Weekender (most of it way below the fold.)