The Emotional Labor and Mental Load Podcast!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 4, 2020 | Homemaking, Podcasts

Emotional labor and mental load take their toll on a marriage–because they often exhaust the wife. So many women experience this, and yet we don’t really have a name for it. We know something is wrong, we feel guilty because we dream of getting away for...

EMOTIONAL LABOR: How the Fair Play System Helps Share Mental Load

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 2, 2020 | Homemaking, Resolving Conflict

How does the Fair Play system help you divide up mental load in marriage? We’re just launching our June series about mental load, where we look at how to balance the mental work that goes into keeping the family together. Yesterday we looked at what mental load...

THE EMOTIONAL LABOR SERIES: Let’s Talk Emotional Labor and Mental Load

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 1, 2020 | Homemaking, Series

Mental load and emotional labor make women exhausted. We’re starting our mental load and marriage series today, where every Monday in the month of June (as well as a bunch of podcasts and some extra posts) we’ll be focusing on how to balance the mental...

Our Super Awesome Slow Cooker Freezer Meal Cooking Day Before the Baby Came!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 14, 2019 | Homemaking

It’s Thanksgiving Monday here in Canada (a holiday), and we are all feeling thankful yet a little anxious. I’m writing this on Saturday morning, and as of yet there is no baby (and Rebecca is past her due date). But last week on social media I was posting...

Reader Question: Help! I Feel Like my Husband’s Maid!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 6, 2019 | Homemaking

Do you ever feel like your husband’s maid? Every Monday I like to put up a reader question and take a stab at answering it. And today’s I think is a sentiment that many of us have had: is my whole life just cleaning up after him? This is a question I get a...

Treating Homemaking Like a Job Changed My Life–for the Better!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 1, 2019 | Homemaking

Homemaking is hard to do well. Maybe you’re someone who’s really gifted at it (my youngest daughter falls into that category), but most of us find it a bit challenge. When the kids were young and I was a genuine stay at home mom, I’d often find that...

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