acknowledgment page jinx

I have come to believe that there is a jinx on acknowledgment pages. I know too many authors who thanked an agent profusively on such a page and then promptly found a new one for the next book. I also know of several circumstances where there is a friendship breech after an acknowlegements page thank you. Like, best friends won't speak to each other ever again.

While the rational side of my brain accepts that this is probably more because we writers in general are a fickle and over-emotio...