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 month.  The fact that in the...

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 the book Fair...

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 understand the...

Who does the emotional labor of keeping relationships with extended family close? We've been talking this month in our series about the work of emotional labor, and how that can contribute to women's mental load--that feeling that we're carrying all the details of the...