I stopped doing emotional labor in my marriage. Here’s more of what happened.

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This past year, I gave myself the gift of caring less. I stepped back from doing most of the emotional labor in my marriage and vowed that I would just watch what happened.

For years, I had worked the notorious Second Shift, clocking a full time job, organizing childcare, keeping the house clean, washing and updating my daughter’s…