Start Your Engines Ep.9: Honey, Just Give Me a List!

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Marriage, Social Sciences, Science, Relationships, Sex, Christianity, Wife, Religion & Spirituality, Mother, Society & Culture, Advice, Family

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We have been talking about the concept of mental load and the emotional burden of taking care of kids and the household. And when your wife is feeling overburdened bu all the things she needs to track, it's hard for her to get invested in the bedroom. It's so important, then, for husbands to get invested in the household, but is asking her to make a list really going to help the problem? Let's discuss!

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0:00.0	Hey it's Sheila Ray Gregewe from the To Love Honor and Vacuum blog
0:08.9	welcoming you to our To Love Honor and Vacuum podcast and on the last
0:12.3	Thursday of every month we like to aim our
0:14.1	podcast, more at the guys, doesn't mean women can't listen, but hey guys need some time too.
0:19.9	And so this is our Start Your Engines edition of our podcast.
0:24.3	Now, normally on the Start Your Engines podcast,
0:27.0	we talk about sex.
0:28.1	We talk about libido.
0:29.1	We've had a podcast helping men understand women's periods,
0:33.0	understand why she isn't that adventurous in bed,
0:36.0	all kinds of stuff like that,
0:37.0	and you can look in some of the archives for that.
0:39.0	But today, what I want to share with guys
0:42.0	is the number one reason why women say they have no
0:46.6	libido and this actually doesn't have much to do with sex but believe me it
0:52.0	impacts the bedroom.
0:53.8	And that reason is something called mental load.
0:57.8	Okay?
0:58.8	We often use the terms emotional labor too.
1:01.0	It kind of means similar, but not quite the same things. But the truth
1:04.8	is that when a woman has a ton of details going on in her head and she has a
1:11.4	ton of little tiny decisions she has to make on an
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