by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 25, 2020 | Men's Corner, Podcasts
How can men and women work together to understand mental load–and deal with it well? It’s the last Thursday of the month, which means our podcast today is aimed at men (although both men and women can listen!). And today we’re capping off our...
by Keith Gregoire | Jun 24, 2020 | Homemaking, Men's Corner
Is it fair for husbands to just say, “Give me a list of what you want done and I’ll do it?” It’s Keith here today; welcome back to Men’s Corner! It has been interesting to watch people wrestle with the concept of mental load over the...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 22, 2020 | Homemaking
The “daily grind” tasks are the ones that often build the most resentment in a marriage. We’re in the middle of our series about mental load in marriage and sharing the emotional labor. We talked first about what those terms mean, and then showed how...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 19, 2020 | Homemaking, Parenting Small Children
When a husband has a great idea for a family outing, why does the wife often get defensive, upset, or touchy about it? We’ve been talking about emotional labor and mental load all month in June, and many women have said that their husbands just don’t...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 15, 2020 | Homemaking, Resolving Conflict
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...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 11, 2020 | Homemaking, Podcasts
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...
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! 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 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
