The Mental Load Chronicles

A suburban family

One couple’s real-time journey to rebalance work, home, and everything in between.

We’ve been married for 20 years. We’ve got three kids, multiple dogs, demanding careers—and more mental tabs open than our browsers can handle.

We’re not experts. We’re just two longtime partners trying to unpack the invisible labor that’s been building between us for years—and we’re doing it out loud, on purpose, in real time.

Each week, we sit down (sometimes tired, often interrupted) to talk through what the mental load really looks like in our home, what’s working, what’s not, and how we’re learning to share the weight more equitably.

With honesty, humor, and zero perfection, we’re inviting you along as we figure it out—one messy, meaningful conversation at a time.

Expect:

Real talk about modern relationships

Behind-the-scenes of our wins and fails

Tools, conversations, and messy progres

Podcast website

Listen in your app

Episodes

53 episodes

  1. You Can Set It Down This Week 3:45
  2. OUT: What’s Actually Changed? 31:26
  3. Bamboozled Summer: Camp Edition 25:43
  4. The Mental Load of Stuff 31:50
  5. Dimmer Down on Caring 39:03