"This was something that happened to other people, people who hadn t thought out everything the way we had. We had a plan that started in high school and followed us into parenthood and suburbia. The plan, we knew, wasn t going to be easy, and we d have to work hard at it; but as a team, we could accomplish it and achieve our goals, which would eventually make our lives very comfortable. So what went wrong? How could this horrendously destructive...