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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 learning to share the weight more equitably. With honesty, humor, and zero perfection, we’re inviting you along as we figure it out—one messy, meaningful conversation at a time. Expect: Real talk about modern relationships Behind-the-scenes of our wins and fails Tools, conversations, and messy progres
A suburban family hosts The Mental Load Chronicles, a kids show with 44 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail After more than 40 episodes, we’re wrapping up season one of The Mental Load Chronicles and taking a summer break before returning for season two in September. In this episode, we look back on what this
Send us Fan Mail Being a working parent is hard. But being a working mom often comes with an extra layer of guilt, expectation, judgment, and invisible logistics that can feel impossible to set down. In this episode, we
Send us Fan Mail High school graduation came with balloons, cupcakes, parking instructions, party planning, family logistics, emotional surprises, and one very strange moment involving a graduation card. In this episode,
Send us Fan Mail What do moms really want for Mother’s Day? Sometimes it’s not brunch. Sometimes it’s not flowers. Sometimes it’s not a spa day. In this episode, we unpack the Mother’s Day moment that became much bigger
Send us Fan Mail We’re revisiting the “Magic” cards from Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play deck — the cards that cover the softer, sweeter, and sneakier parts of family life: birthdays, holidays, gifts, magical beings, romance, ext
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’re talking about something deeply personal, often avoided, and yes… a little uncomfortable: the mental load of personal safety . We come into this from very different places. One of u
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’re talking about the mental load of kids sports — and more specifically, the chaos, cost, logistics, and emotional weight of youth gymnastics. After getting home at 9:30 p.m. from a c
Send us Fan Mail Not quite two months after losing Winston, we are getting the question everyone seems to ask way too soon: are we getting another dog? In this episode, we do a lightning round on the real question behind
Send us Fan Mail Some weeks, everything stacks at once—school events, holidays, work, life… all of it. This week, we didn’t have the capacity to record a full episode. And instead of pushing through, we chose to set some
Send us Fan Mail This week, we revisit the Fair Play Out deck and go card by card through the "Out" deck we talked through before. From weekend plans, points/miles/coupons, and travel to birthday party logistics, auto, l
Send us Fan Mail Summer camp sounds simple… until you’re the one planning it. In this episode, we turn summer camp into a game show—because honestly, it kind of is one. From half-day camps that don’t cover your workday t
Send us Fan Mail You think you’re arguing about clutter. You’re not. In this episode, we unpack the mental load of stuff — who tracks it, who organizes it, who knows where everything is, and what happens when one partner
Send us Fan Mail This week we talk more about the weight of ADHD in a marriage. What does it feel like to carry more of the mental load when your partner’s brain works differently? We discuss: Boomerang tasks that never
Send us Fan Mail ADHD doesn’t just affect the person who has it. It lives in the marriage. In this episode, we dig into how his ADHD shows up in our relationship — from the infamous “squirrel” moments to dropped balls, e
Send us Fan Mail Six months. We can’t quite believe it either. In this episode, we pause the experiment and ask five big questions: What surprised you the most? Has anything changed how you see our marriage? What’s been
Send us Fan Mail This week, we’re talking about something that sounds simple… until it’s not. Sickness. Not the dramatic, life-altering kind. The everyday, run-of-the-mill, freight-train-hit-me-overnight kind. When one o
Send us Fan Mail Romance doesn’t disappear because people stop loving each other—it disappears when there’s no capacity left. In this episode, we talk honestly about how the mental load affects romance, intimacy, and con
Send us Fan Mail Six months ago, we worked through the Home Deck from the Fair Play system. In this episode, we revisit it — not to start over, but to see what actually changed. What surprised us most wasn’t a chore swap
Send us Fan Mail This week, we’re revisiting the Fair Play Home Deck — because it turns out splitting the cards once doesn’t magically mean the work stays split forever. In this episode, we walk back through the cards we
Send us Fan Mail Every January, we make resolutions with the best intentions — and by February, most of them are gone. In this episode, we talk about why New Year’s resolutions fail so often — and how the mental load pla
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