My partner and I keep starting savings challenges together but one of us always breaks first and then the other person gives up too and we've done this cycle so many times that we don't even celebrate when we restart anymore and I think we're both afraid to admit we might not be compatible savers.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are caught in a pattern where their different willpower rhythms are defeating both of their individual capacities for self-control.
“Where Are You with Saving and the psychology of deferred gratification?”
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