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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 mental load and...

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

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 load and grow a...

The Dog Ate Our Podcast. Plus COVID.

This is a story about why we don't have a podcast up today, but we still do have a dog. For those of you who have not seen him on the blog yet, meet Winston, the 5 pound yorkshire terrier: Winston is a rescue dog, adopted by Becca...

COMMUNITY SERIES: 10 Ways to Break Into A New Church and Find Friends

How do you make friends at a new church? We've been talking about building community here on the blog in March, and one of the big questions that came out last week in our initial post on church community was how to break into a church that seems cliquey. So today I...
Aragorn, Cinema Therapy, and Authentic Masculinity

Aragorn, Cinema Therapy, and Authentic Masculinity

As we're trying to understand emotional maturity, can we get a better picture of what authentic masculinity is? We talk a lot about toxic masculinity, and I don't think that's necessarily a healthy term. Many people fear that we're labelling the stuff that guys tend...

When Did You Feel Like an Adult?

When Did You Feel Like an Adult?

When did you officially feel grown up? I'm sure we all woke up this morning to a little bit of a fog that we weren't necessarily expecting. I didn't watch the election returns last night, and only tuned in at 7:15. I don't want to get political in this post, or in the...

Stop Worrying About Stuff You Can’t Change

Stop Worrying About Stuff You Can’t Change

We're in election season. We're in the middle of COVID. It's easy to feel depressed about the state of the world. I’ve been trying to cocoon, not pay attention to the news, not think about much of anything at all. I made the terrible mistake of putting up a political...

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