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Emotional labor is often invisible to men because a lot of it happens out of their sight. 

Emotional labor is when my friends and I carefully coordinate to make sure that nobody who’s invited to the party has drama with anyone else at the party, and then everyone comes and has a great time and has no idea how much thought went into it.

Emotional labor is when I have to cope, again, with the distress I feel at having to clean myself in a dirty bathroom or cook my food in a dirty kitchen because my male roommate didn’t think it was important to clean up his messes.

Emotional labor is having to start the 100th conversation with my male roommate about how I need my living space to be cleaner. 

Emotional labor is reminding my male roommate the next day that he agreed to clean up his mess but still hasn’t. 

Emotional labor is reassuring him that it’s okay, I’m not mad, I understand that he’s had a very busy stressful week. 

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