By Alex Witchel — 2013
When my mom developed dementia, my dad tried to deny it and I tried to fix it. We both failed.
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Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles.
Professor Arlie Hochschild examined what really happens in dual-career households.
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In the episode, I share an article I read recently with some simple strategies a woman used that really made a difference in making her “invisible” emotional labor visible to her husband.