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Podcast: George and Jess Podcast
Episode: Episode 013: The weight of the 'mental load'
Description: Mental load, worry work, cognitive labor...call it what you want. It's the overseeing of the physical tasks in a household, the running list of items that you have to do that's always playing in your head. Every home and family has these tasks and experts says the weight of these thoughts and worry primarily falls on the woman's shoulders (in heterosexual couples).Â
We're talking about the mental load and how the dynamic in our house has recently changed.