Project Horizon #1: Is He Treating You Like a Short-Term Project?

At one point or another, we’ve all seen it: a woman wasting her energy on a man whom she obvious has no future with. She’s in med school and he can’t keep a good steady job. He’s at the “off” swing of an on-again-off-again cycle with his wife and she happens to be around. It’s very frustrating to watch, especially if you care about the said woman.

Let’s look at an economic concept called Project Horizon. It’s an analysis of a project based on its duration, by mapping out the timeline of its expenses verses revenues.

There are many types of ventures: long-term, short-term, and anything in between. In order to survive, a company needs to know exactly what type it’s dealing with. E.g. Say they take on a project that requires a lot of money in the first five years, but after that it’s a sweet cash cow. They better make sure they’ve got enough cash to cover those first years, otherwise they might not be around long enough to enjoy the fruits of their labour.

Unfortunately, some women aren’t very honest with themselves when it comes to the Project Horizon of their men. They refuse to ask themselves: Do I really see a future with this guy? Is he treating me like a short-term project? Is he being nice to obtain a long-term mate, or just to get laid?

There’s nothing wrong with short-term projects, in fact it works really well for certain types of people. It is only wrong when a fling is disguised as a long-term prospect, and being invested in as such. Remember: The treatment of a long-term project is completely different from that of a short-term one.

The lucky thing is, you could tell a lot about a man’s intention through his behaviour. Stay tuned for my next post: Project Horizon #2: “I Don’t Care if Those Boobs are Fake, as Long as They’re Huge!”