THE EMOTIONAL LABOR SERIES: How to Eliminate Nagging for Good
What if the reason that many women “nag”, or at least men feel “nagged”, is that women are carrying too much of the mental load? If only women know what tasks need to be done, then it’s almost inevitable that they will have to issue...
PODCAST: What if Your Husband’s Not on Board with Sharing Emotional Labor?
What if you want to redistribute the mental load and emotional labor in your household–but your husband’s not on board? We’ve been talking about emotional labor all month on the blog, and we’ve got a lot more coming! And today on the podcast we...
Should Doing Housework Be Considered Foreplay?
Have you all heard “sex begins in the kitchen”–not meaning that we should do interesting things with whipping cream, but that doing the dishes is a good method to get women to warm up? I hear this a lot–“Guys, if you want her to have sex...
EMOTIONAL LABOR SERIES: How Do We Decide What Needs to Be Done?
When we’re trying to divide up the mental load, one of the problems we run into is agreeing on what actually needs to be done. This month we’re looking at emotional labor and mental load, and we started our series last week talking about the problem of...
Can We Deal with Mental Load Without Having a Contest of Who Has it Worse?
How does mental load affect stress? This week we’ve been talking on the blog about mental load and emotional labor, in three posts: What is emotional labor and mental load? The Fair Play solution Our podcast on mental load A bunch of you have sent me...About Sheila
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 25 years and happily married for 20! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 8 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.Check out the Books
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