4/16/25

Episode #70: Are You Doing Too Much of the Emotional Work in Your Relationship? (or not enough?)

Do you feel like you carry all the emotional labor in your relationship, or do you quietly wonder whether you contribute enough? In this Secure Love Club session, Julie Menanno defines emotional work, supporting your partner's feelings, reaching for connection, sharing your own vulnerability, and making space for closeness, and helps you honestly gauge whether it is balanced between you. She names the telltale signs of overfunctioning: constantly setting your own needs aside, not receiving the reciprocation that refills you, and pouring out support your partner cannot seem to take in. You will learn how to tell temporary imbalance from a chronic one, and how to begin restoring mutual care. Honest and clarifying for anyone who feels drained by being the emotional caretaker, or suspects they have been leaving the work to their partner. The full teaching is inside for members.

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