038 - How to Not Suck at Commitment

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I grew up hearing many different things that were presented to me as ‘fact’.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The thing about growing up is that what we witness, by in large, is what we see as truth in the world until we somehow learn differently.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I thought professional wrestling was real for a good while until I had the dream shattered.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many of these truths we take on and form part of our lens of the world, and in other ways often part of our identity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of those ideas and stories perpetuated around me, especially in my twenties was this doozie - <em>“Men are afraid of commitment”</em>.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s just truth, isn’t it?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, no. it’s not. But it’s the kind of little mistruth that infiltrates the minds of men and people who deal with and relate with men that almost give it permission to fulfil as a prophecy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And so I, like many men before and after me, used this as a bit of a crutch to lean my lack of - and fear of - commitment onto.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Until I shattered it into the total and utter bollocks that it is.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enter - this episode.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>In this Episode:</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s true that commitment is a big deal for men. So much so that it harks back to our instinctual and evolutionary ancestry.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This and how it now plays out for us in terms of both consequences and opportunities is what I cover in today’s solo episode.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this, I share a story about me sleeping on the couch one night after being delivered some shitty news by my wife - and I explain</span> <em><span style=