Be honest. How many times have you asked "are you PMSing?" without knowing a thing about her period or what her body actually goes through every month?

Most men have done it. We had too.

This is the episode where two married men admit how little we knew about periods, PMS, and the monthly reality our partners live with.

Preet grew up watching his mother sit alone in a room. Untouchable. Kept out of the kitchen and the temple. Neither of us was ever sat down and told what a period actually is.

So we did the thing men are taught never to do. We asked. Our wives, our sisters, our families. One conversation ran ninety minutes, and we realised we had been getting almost everything wrong.

In this episode:

The difference between PMS and the actual cycle, because they are not the same thing

The four phases every man should understand

The cultural and religious shame South Asian men inherit around periods

Why she often doesn't want you to fix it, she wants you to sit with her

How this one topic quietly damages a marriage when nobody talks about it

No lecture. No therapy-speak. Just two men, uncomfortable and honest, having the conversation we should have had twenty years ago.

She's not crazy. We were just never told.

If you are a woman who has wished he understood, send this to him. If you are a man, listen, then ask her what she knows.

Men don't talk. Until now.

New episode every other Thursday.

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Preet Sagar: instagram.com/sagarpreet

Dhiren Bhatia: instagram.com/dhirenb

Most men think they're not earning what they deserve. The real question is what men are telling themselves about what they deserve.

Preet and Dhiren open up the thing most men never say out loud: their relationship with money. Not budgeting. Not investing. The story underneath it.

Preet talks about losing his father, and the financial pressure that sat behind it. Dhiren talks about sitting in a members' club for six months, too ashamed to invite anyone in. Both of them admit, on tape, that they don't believe they deserve $10 million.

They get into where the money story starts, why it follows you into your marriage, why founders underprice themselves, and the shift that changes it: money isn't a fixed pot. We can all be rich together.

If you've ever underpriced yourself, refused money that was offered to you, or fought with your partner about money and never understood why, this one is for you.

Mentioned: The Science of Getting Rich (Wallace D. Wattles), Happy Money (Ken Honda), Taki Moore, working with a money coach.

Almost Macho. Not a perfect man. A better one.

Note: this episode discusses suicide and mental health.

We hide the receipt. We say "no, this isn't new." We buy the bag and feel guilty before we even use it. Why? 👇

This week on Almost Macho, Preet and Dhiren dig into the guilt men carry around spending money on themselves, and where that voice in your head actually comes from. If you've ever downplayed something you bought so you didn't look like you were showing off, this one's for you.

In this episode we break down:

• The bag one of us lied to his wife about
• Tall poppy syndrome and why we shrink to stay in the group
• "You only get the things you think you deserve"
• The per-use test that kills buyer's guilt for good
• Our proudest and most regretted buys, including one that still stings at 2,800 dirhams