Emotion work is understood as the art of trying to change in degree or quality an emotion or feeling.
Emotion work may be defined as the management of one's own feelings, or work done in an effort to maintain a relationship; there is dispute as to whether emotion work is only work done regulating one’s own emotion, or extends to performing the emotional work for others.
And let me tell you, it is fucking exhausting.
And not just the housewife version. While that is still tiring, it's improving around here. No, I mean the straight up kind.
Tomorrow I'm....no, I'm not. I'm doing more of it. In fact I'm booked for it right through the week-end.
Next week I'm scheduling a day off from everyone's emotions. Likely Monday. I'm going to sit my backside in front of Netflix and PBS with my knitting and just....not for a day.
That is all.
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