It's so bad for me... I read the whole article and I cannot figure out what 'emotional labor' is. The scenes described play out constantly in my home. There ar

It's so bad for me... I read the whole article and I cannot figure out what 'emotional labor' is. The scenes described play out constantly in my home. There are these major gaffs in both directions: For me, I cannot infer how to set the table from what's on the stove, and my wife is therefore convinced that I have a learning disability. For her, she is incapable of using the Maps app on her smart phone to help me when our destination changes after departing the house. And I am therefore convinced she has a learning disability. Let's accept that things are structurally different upstairs and therefore inputs are not processed the same way and therefore the actual problem is not in the wiring, but in our expectations.