1162: Emotional Labor: Why Your Friends Are So Tired by Sara Stanizai of Prospect Therapy on Difficult Societal Roles
Optimal Relationships Daily - Dating, Marriage and Parenting
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Emotional Labor Is a Feminist Issue
Emotional labor is the unseen and often thankless work put in to meet an expectation or standard, even though it does match how you genuinely feel. These standards are often created without you and people like you in mind. This regulation of one's feelings creates cognitive dissonance, or a mismatched idea of expected emotions and actual felt emotions. Living in a constant state of cognitive dissonance can be extremely difficult, leading to intense mental and physical exhaustion.
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