Regina Lark

If you do the heavy lifting of emotional labor in your household, then you know that the weight of it can be crushing. If you aren’t sure that you are shouldering the bulk of emotional labor in your household, here’s a review. Emotional labor is the invisible, unnoticed, unwaged, unwritten, undervalued work women do at home and in the paid workforce. It is the thinking about what’s coming up, what needs to happen, how to look into the future to anticipate birthdays, family meals, holiday dinners, do we have enough toilet paper, how come we don’t have any more ketchup? Granted, all of these little tasks individually are easy to do but also supremely important to the functioning of a well-ordered home and to family happiness. AND…the tasks are like part of the clothing that women wear. It falls onto her shoulders like a giant set of shoulder pads. https://reginalark.com/2022/04/13/how-to-stop-doing-all-of-the-emotional-labor/