When Love Feels Like Work: The Emotional Labour Women Carry in Relationships

When Love Feels Like Work: The Emotional Labour Women Carry in Relationships

For many women, love is not just an emotional experience. It is a responsibility. A continuous, often invisible effort that runs in the background of daily life. It is remembering, anticipating, soothing, adjusting, explaining, and managing not only one’s own emotions but someone else’s as well. This unseen effort has a name: emotional labour. While […]

When One Person Grows Emotionally and the Other Doesn’t

When One Person Grows Emotionally and the Other Doesn’t

Emotional growth is rarely a joint process, even in long-term relationships. People evolve at different speeds, shaped by experiences, responsibilities, and self-awareness. For many women, especially those navigating demanding careers, this uneven growth becomes most visible in adulthood when ambition sharpens, emotional intelligence deepens, and life demands maturity. When one person grows emotionally and the […]

When Love Feels Like Responsibility Instead of Partnership

When Love Feels Like Responsibility Instead of Partnership

Love is meant to feel like shared ground — a place where two people meet, support each other, and grow together. But for many women, love quietly shifts into something heavier. It stops feeling like companionship and starts feeling like responsibility. You don’t always notice when it happens. There’s no single moment where the line […]