Why Money Makes Us Squirm
January / February, 2013
Why do men hate talking about their bank accounts?ike all people who are getting divorced, my friend talked about loneliness, his sex life and the damage divorce would do to his kids. After five minutes of this, he—like all people who are getting divorced—spent half an hour talking about money. My friend said he was lucky in that he had saved up "a pretty big chunk." When I gingerly asked him how much "a pretty big chunk" was, he gingerly said, "A lot more than you'd t...