The Mental Load Chronicles
One couple’s real-time journey to rebalance work, home, and everything in between.We’ve been married for 20 years. We’ve got three kids, multiple dogs, demanding careers—and more mental tabs open than our browsers can handle.We’re not experts. We’re just two longtime partners trying to unpack the invisible labor that’s been building between us for years—and we’re doing it out loud, on purpose, in real time.Each week, we sit down (sometimes tired, often interrupted) to talk through what the mental load really looks like in our home, what’s working, what’s not, and how we’re l...
Wild: Navigating Life’s Unpredictable Moments
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From pet loss to home renovations gone rogue, we’re diving into the “Wild” section of the Fair Play deck. These are the unpredictable life moments that don’t fit neatly into a category — but still demand teamwork, compassion, and a good sense of humor.
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Dimmer Down on Caring
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This week, we continue through the Fair Play deck by Eve Rodsky to see how our family’s responsibilities stack up — and who’s really holding the cards. From civic duties to cultural outings, travel plans to kids’ activities, we talk through what’s working, what’s… not, and how we can better share the load. It’s part strategy session, part reality check, and a whole lot of honest conversation about making home life feel fairer for both of us.
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It’s Not Just the Thing—It’s All the Things
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In this premiere episode of The Mental Load Chronicles, one married couple kicks off their real-time journey to rebalance the invisible labor of family life. This episode gets brutally honest about what it really takes to “keep the household running.”
It’s vulnerable. It’s relatable. And it’s probably your life, too.
This episode sets the tone for a podcast that blends humor, honesty, and hope while diving into the unspoken work so many of us carry—but rarely name.
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What makes invisible la...Playing Fair: Our First Attempt at Rebalancing the Mental Load
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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), how it feels to hold them, and...
The Mental Load at Midnight
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This one’s for every parent who’s ever stayed up late wrapping birthday presents, stuffing goodie bags, or scrambling to explain why the tooth fairy forgot to come (again).
In this episode, we get into the invisible labor behind the “magic”—from planning birthday parties and making cupcakes from scratch, to managing the ever-growing calendar of childhood traditions. We talk about what it means to carry the mental load of childhood joy, and how much of that load we were carrying without even realizing it.
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