Andy Tegel

Basically, Leah found evidence that men and women are held to a different standard when it comes to housework.

Now, what can you do about this imbalance?

Well, the first step, as is so often the case here at Life Kit...

Name it to tame it.

Because we kind of know or feel just how unruly the mental load can get on the daily, right?

But by being able to slot that emotional thinking work into different categories, you can start to both get a handle on the real scope and scale of it and have language to better communicate with your household.

So takeaway two, break down the specifics of your mental load so you can start to talk about it and change what needs changing.

And that laundry list is probably longer than you think it is.

Because Leah's broken down the mental load into eight different categories.

Yes, eight.

Let's go through them one by one.

First up, life organization.

Next, relationship hygiene.

That's maintaining strong social connections.

At work, yeah, I might just call it networking.

Then we have dream building.

Helping people in your life fulfill ambitions, passions, goals.

Anticipating real or hypothetical risks to you and your loved ones.

And the last one, number eight, is Medicare.

That's M-E-T-A, like abstract or conceptual or whoa, meta.