Are You Afraid To Take Risks? Identifying And Addressing Financial Fear In Women
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Julia Austin
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The here and now can be debilitating
When we’re worried that financial moves we make for the future could impact our finances of today, of course we feel frozen by that fear. In speaking of a couple in which the husband wants to invest and the wife worries about losing access to that money when it could be used for things like, paying down a mortgage or groceries, Dr. Scott said this: the man is thinking about the future, and the woman is worried about the now. Women worry about “being the glue for everyone else,” as Dr. Scott put it.
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