With the monthly full money extra, I'm Chris Hill.

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so it's natural to think of romance or, at

the very least, chocolate.

But Jenny Anderson says the key to a happy marriage isn't necessarily romance or love.

It's economics.

Jenny's an award-winning business reporter who co-authored the best-selling book Spouse

Enomics using economics to master love, marriage, and dirty dishes.

When the book first came out in 2011, we talked about the benefit of commitment devices

and taking a cost-benefit analysis approach to the everyday life in a marriage.

Marriage can be romantic, but dishes are not romantic.

Trash is not romantic.

Deciding who does the carpool, these are not romantic issues and do not require romantic

solutions.

They require practical solutions.

I think we sometimes just hope that because we're married and because we're in love, all

of these things should be easy.

You would never run a business that way, being like, well, I hope my business partner

just knows what I need.

You would assume that you would sit down and say, all right, here's how we're going to

divide up the tasks.

Here's what you're going to do, here's what I'm going to do, and when it doesn't get

done, you would be upset about it.

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