My partner and I have been together for six years and we both consider ourselves feminists, but we're realizing we have fundamentally different relationships to gender roles in practice — I find myself doing more emotional labor and household management, and when I bring it up, he intellectually agrees but then gets overwhelmed by the practical changes needed, and I get frustrated by the gap between our shared values and our daily life.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that subscribing to an ideology is different from embodying it when it requires changing patterns that feel natural.
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