A short excerpt from a YouTube video (Ramit Sethi, Jan 7, 2023) observing that many men are capable of long-range planning for personal goals (business, fitness) and delaying gratification, yet may react negatively or feel uncomfortable when prompted to engage in joint future-planning in the context of relationships or shared finances.
About your future. All things that men are men do all the time. They're happy to. They may not talk about their needs as much, but many men are really good at going out and getting their needs met. When it comes to the future, men plan well into the future about what they want. Right. You talk. Look at any guy with a business goal or with a, you know, fitness goal. Fitness goal. Men are quite capable of. Of looking into the future and, and delaying gratification and planning and making a vision for themselves. And then comes along and says, hey, you know, what do you think about these things and building this together, or how we would discuss finances together or whatever? And he's like, whoa, enough with the planning. Right? Right. This is a lot of future talk.
