You can feel exhausted even without exerting yourself physically. The mental weight you’re carrying can be just as heavy, if not more.
However, a dad who is known on the parenting forum Mumsnet as Whatnow123 doubts the extent to which this is true for his wife.
In his candid post, the man shared his experience of taking on the majority of their household responsibilities and how he was starting to think that a lot of the “mental load” that his spouse talks about could be self-imposed.
