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\u201cWhat happens when you don\u2019t teach a whole group of people to understand their emotions is that they become extremely emotionally dysregulated . . . it then tends to be a woman who is tasked with modulated that partner\u2019s expression, especially when there are kids involved and you\u2019re trying to be a buffer between that temper\u2014that mood\u2014and your children.\u201d

Rose Hackman joins me in today\u2019s episode about Emotional Labor.

Rose is a British journalist and the author of Emotional Labor.

We discuss what emotional labor is, how it develops, the problem of it being invisible and unvalued, how men are also harmed by patriarchy, how to make our relationships more egalitarian, and what changes we could make in society to value emotional labor.

Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast94.