Hi tbone, Just reading through these last few posts and something occurred to me. Do you think your wife has a spending addiction? The way you describe the gratification it gives her and the fact that she is never satisfied sure sounds like an addiction to me. I don't know how you tackle it if it is but maybe it's a different angle to look at it. Maybe you can stop feeling so angry with her if you think that this is not a rational choice on her behalf and start looking at other ways for her to be helped with it.
Just my 2c
Fran
if we can be sufficient to ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs Erica Jong