What is emotional labor?
Emotional labor in relationships.
In some relationships, though, one person often ends up taking the brunt of this so-called emotional labor.
Doing this is not easy."
Sometimes this is referred to as the “mental load” or the “overhead of caring.”
And it occurs both when an employee has to suppress certain emotionsbut also fake others.
And it can become emotionally taxing and even cause long-term psychological consequences for such workers.
“The components of emotional labor are ‘surface acting’ and ‘deep acting,'” Fluegge explains.
“‘Surface acting’ involves faking one’s emotions to show the ‘correct’ one.
“But emotionallaboris more about the suppression of feelings.”
