by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 20, 2022 | Parenting Young Kids
When I was speaking back in the early 2000s, I remember asking women if they were a better wife or a better mother. Almost everyone put their hands up to “better mother.” And I remember saying, why don’t we realize that what kids really need is a...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 16, 2021 | Family, Life
What happens when women carry the mental load for the whole family? It can be exhausting! Last June, my series on the blog was on mental load and emotional labor, and how draining it is for women to have to remember everything and keep all details straight, and how...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 4, 2020 | 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...
