Send us a text If last week was about awareness, this week is about action — and continuing a conversation too good to rush. In Episode 15, we started unpacking what it really takes to share the mental load. The dialogue ran deep, so instead of cutting it short, we kept going. This week, we pick up right where we left off: talking about accountability, self-understanding, and how defining success at home can be just as important (and complicated) as defining it at work. There’s reflection, la...
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Send us a text If last week was about awareness, this week is about action — and continuing a conversation too good to rush. In Episode 15, we started unpacking what it really takes to share the mental load. The dialogue ran deep, so instead of cutting it short, we kept going. This week, we pick up right where we left off: talking about accountability, self-understanding, and how defining success at home can be just as important (and complicated) as defining it at work. There’s reflection, la...
Playing Fair: Our First Attempt at Rebalancing the Mental Load
The Mental Load Chronicles
29 minutes
3 months ago
Playing Fair: Our First Attempt at Rebalancing the Mental Load
Send us a text In Episode 2 of The Mental Load Chronicles, we do a thing: sit down with a literal deck of cards to sort out who does what in our household. Enter: the Fair Play method. We talk through the realities of managing a full house—three kids, two jobs, multiple dogs—and how it all becomes a blur of unspoken expectations, unbalanced responsibilities, and surprise tensions about photos. Yes, photos. This episode captures our first honest attempt at naming the tasks we do (or avoid), ho...
The Mental Load Chronicles
Send us a text If last week was about awareness, this week is about action — and continuing a conversation too good to rush. In Episode 15, we started unpacking what it really takes to share the mental load. The dialogue ran deep, so instead of cutting it short, we kept going. This week, we pick up right where we left off: talking about accountability, self-understanding, and how defining success at home can be just as important (and complicated) as defining it at work. There’s reflection, la...
