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Scenario

When couples have opposite risk-taking philosophies and can't make decisions together

My partner and I have completely different approaches to taking risks in our relationship and life decisions - I need to analyze every possibility and potential consequence while they just want to leap and figure it out as we go, and we've been stuck on major decisions for months because neither of us trusts the other's process. We used to find this difference exciting but now it feels like we're speaking different languages and I don't know how to bridge the gap between overthinking and underthinking.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two fundamentally different approaches to uncertainty have created a decision-making paralysis that threatens the relationship's forward movement.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Risk-taking — philosophy and psychology?”

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