They’re both busy attorneys, but she tends to take charge of their social plans. Ms. Tilley-Colson has hung out with her boyfriend’s close friends a handful of times; he hangs out with hers several times a week.

Her role as the de facto social director of the relationship includes more serious concerns, too. “When are we going to meet each other’s parents? When are we going to go on our first vacation together?” she said. “And if all of that onus is on me to kind of plan, then I also feel all of the responsibility if something goes wrong.”

I think a big part of this, is women often desire more social interaction.

If her friends have always been getting together several times a week. And his friends go months without getting together, then that split is easily explainable.

Same for the “milestones”. I don’t think many men worry about that type of stuff, and if so it’s likely not till after the woman has been thinking about it.

There’s a very real problem where a lot of men don’t open up emotionally, but this article acts like women have some great social burden they’re forced to carry.

They can just not, it’s literally that easy.