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Emotional Labor: What It Is and What It Is Not

By Sharmin Tunguz — 2020

Emotional labor is a paid chore, not a household chore.

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Men are more likely than ever to embrace the idea of gender equality, but when it comes to the home front, traditional values dominate.

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Francesca Donner
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The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.

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Lori Gottlieb
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She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes by the Sink

It wasn’t a big deal to me when I was married. But it was a big deal to her.

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