How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality
This is a topic where the more I learned about it the more I opened my eyes to it and saw it happening on my own life.<p>I&#x27;m very easy going and there isn&#x27;t much I get too worked up about. My wife, on the other hand, is a meticulous planner. I could see her getting stressed out making decisions for a vacation. I realized that by not caring, I wasn&#x27;t helping and offloading the burden to her. Now I truly didn&#x27;t care if we went to restaurant A or restaurant B, so she always had to make the decision. Since realizing this I&#x27;ve relieved her more from all the decision making, even if I really don&#x27;t care about the outcome. Why should I do this? Well, because she&#x27;s my wife and while I may not care which restaurant we go to, I care about her.<p>TL;DR It&#x27;s real and I decided to do take up more of this emotional labor in life.