I was reading where someone thought ear pain and stress are related. Anyone experience that?

Yes, if the ear pain is linked in with tmjd - that's one of the ways. Stress causes clenching/teeth grinding, which in turn can cause tmjd, which causes ear pain.

MY experence with TMJ and ear pain... one sets the other off.. and i have both...i find its eayser to deal with the ear pian then the TMJ..both usually end up give me a nasty headache..altho the TMJ pain is much easyer to prevent then the ear pain... GOOD LUCK