When the Kids Fell Asleep, I Realized How Heavy My Marriage Has Become скачать в хорошем качестве

When the Kids Fell Asleep, I Realized How Heavy My Marriage Has Become

Marriage struggles don’t always happen in front of the kids. Sometimes they show up after bedtime — as mental load, default parent burnout, emotional labor, and quiet resentment in marriage. If you’re an overwhelmed mom carrying the second shift, navigating invisible labor and lonely motherhood, this will feel familiar. The house is finally quiet. No snacks to refill. No baths to supervise. No questions shouted from the hallway. You should feel relief. Instead, you feel the weight. All day you functioned as the default parent — scheduling, soothing, remembering, anticipating. The mental load didn’t pause once. Your marriage looked stable. Cooperative. Fine. But when the noise drops, the loneliness gets louder. The unspoken things. The imbalance you can’t quite articulate without sounding ungrateful. The second shift that followed you into the couch cushions. You don’t hate your marriage. You hate how heavy it feels when you’re the strong one by default. Silence doesn’t create the weight. It reveals it. Tags: marriage struggles, mental load, default parent, emotional labor, resentment in marriage, lonely motherhood, second shift exhaustion, overwhelmed mom, invisible labor, modern marriage, bedtime anxiety