"It's been my job my entire life, monitoring other people's feelings, caretaking them, and pursuing them. I don't want to do it."
"For what am I if not just a content machine with no feelings."
"The solution is hard work. It's emotional labor. It's the thing you don't want to do."
"It's a trap that we have seen a lot of women fall into, of being constantly drained by pouring into their husbands."
"Women are not rehabilitation centers for damaged men."
"People can be complicated and nuanced, and their intentions aren't always clear-cut."
"Nursing is a very high-stakes, emotionally, mentally, and physically demanding job."
"Emotional labor: from managing one's own emotions to unpaid household chores."
"It's wild to think about. You have us doing all manner of emotional labor."
"It was more work than it's ever been before, but it was also more powerful emotionally."
"Those that labor in tears shall reap in joy."
"Pam’s role as the Office’s human glue, a sounding board, an emotional support worker, the provider of gentle nudges, is a classic example of someone taking on the lion’s share of emotional labor for a group."
"When black people talk about when we talk about experience we then have to like then educate everyone else as to why this is our experience which is draining."
"Let women build the interior. Let women build the land of emotion. Let them build the soul of the relationship. They're better at it anyways."
"You inspire this person to move into an awakening."
"I always try to sound happy regardless of what I feel. Welcome to company!"
"It's exhausting, you keep showing up for someone who doesn't."
"Creativity is delicate and exhausting. It's not just about making art for money or response, it's about staying inspired and passionate."
"Sometimes exhaustion comes from carrying the torch for maturity in a relationship."
"You gotta let all of that go you have a job to do which is to allow him to trust you again."
"The new person is coming on in, they're willing to do the work, they're willing to do the excavation. They want to see your heart in this presentation."
"It's not your job to ensure others never feel upset or disappointed."
"If the effort and the energy and the reserves you're putting into reprogramming is more exhausting than the misogyny itself it is okay to forgive yourself."
"Masking is one of the most exhausting and draining things."
"I'm a very, very emotionally intelligent person, and so a lot of times I end up having to do the emotional labor for other people to get us through, right? It's exhausting."
"Women do emotional labor to love someone that society says is not valuable and should be unlovable is an act of resistance."
"It is not your responsibility to manage the emotions of your friends and family."
"...if you don't feel anything, you're not human. You never do the work."
"This is not my pain. I will not carry it. I'm done carrying it for you. This is yours. You can have it back."
"It's sharing the emotional labor. It's being charming with your friends and family. It's making an effort with your children."
"Men tend to carry the bulk of the mental, emotional, and domestic load in a relationship."
"It is exhausting having to forgive people who are not sorry."
"Emotional labor shouldn't be as huge of a part of social media as it is."
"You are working so hard to stay cool, calm, and collected that you deserve a fat paycheck for your emotional labor."
"The thing about compassion work is that you can very easily take on the."
"The term 'emotional labor' was coined to describe the phenomenon of controlling the emotions you express while doing your job."
"Keeping your heart free from toxic people and the bitterness that they create can be exhausting."
"Our work is difficult; we confront much sorrow and disappointment."
"When people go to work and every day they do what we call surface acting... you put on your smile no matter what you feel... this emotional labor is associated with huge amounts of burnout and lower levels of well-being."
"Carers aren't machines. You try and do your best for every donor, but in the end, it wears you down."
"To become a care provider is in some ways to become vulnerable."
"We go to work and do everything, and then we go to war with our emotions."
"Balance doesn't mean a 50/50 split; it means both people showing up to do 100% of the emotional labor."
"Sorry for being an ignorant, dismissive, dehumanizing, classist jerk who dismissed the emotional aspect of these types of jobs."
"It's really hard to sit with someone else's distress and just let them be distressed."
"The mental load of having to know what your partner's emotions are, recognize what's going on with them, and then resolve those emotions is exhausting."
"This line of work is definitely both mentally and emotionally demanding."
"Animal rescue work is some of the hardest work out there emotionally, and it can be very draining."
"I feel like I'm spending all of my time trying to be okay so they don't worry."
"It sucks a lot of the times when you are a woman, you have to babysit men's feelings."
"Winning a person's heart is much harder than growing plants."