How to Tell Your Spouse You Lost $70,000

I forgot to claim stock options. They expired. Did I have to tell my husband?

Credit: PM Images/Getty Images

This is a story about the last time I lost $70,000. It’s a hilarious tale: I forgot to claim some stock options. They expired. One day I had $70,000 waiting to be claimed, and then, about a month later, when I realized I had forgotten to click the “exercise trade”…