"Emotional labor" is something men basically expect from women 24/7, regardless of if they're in a relationship with them or not. If you don't believe me, feel free to listen to the absolute banger of a song "labour" by Paris Paloma, or take a gander at these 15 screenshots. Prepare to feel super seen and also super annoyed:
1.This man slept through a lunch date and then blamed HIS DATE for not waking him up:
2.This man who reached out to his ex to whine about that fact that he doesn't have a "traditional wife":
3.This man who expects the next poor soul who dates him to be a "1950s woman" who also has a job:
4.This man who apparently expects women to fix the male mental health crisis:
5.This man who literally makes his wife wrap her own Christmas presents:
6.This man who expected his wife to do every single bit of childcare and then blamed her for being too busy to have friends:
7.This man who not only expected his wife to remind him to eat, but also needed a play-by-play on how to thaw food:
8.This boyfriend who pretended to be too helpless to cook, and then got angry when his girlfriend went out of town and "left him to starve" for a week:
9.This boyfriend who "did the dishes" and then expected his girlfriend to clean up the mess he made:
10.This man who expected a woman he met on the internet to teach him how to not hate women (???):
11.This "nice" man who used this opening line on a woman he just met on a dating app:
12.This man who expected a woman he was seeing to text him every single second of every single day, and had a meltdown when she had the audacity to be busy:
13.This man who expected his girlfriend to lend him thousands of dollars so he could finish school:
14.This man who reached out to his ex wife for the first time in two years just to try and leech off her streaming accounts:
15.And finally, this man who was totally fine with his wife working out while the house is a mess...as long as she cleans it up right after:
