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What is Emotional Labor? 7 Steps to Sharing the Burden in Marriage
By Julie Compton — 2018
If the burden of domestic responsibilities falls squarely on your shoulders, get inspired by how this writer learned to stop taking on all the emotional labor in her marriage.
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