An unemptied dishwasher. That's what prompted wife and mother of four Paige Connell to consider divorce.
But it wasn't just the dishwasher. For working moms carrying the brunt of household chores and the mental load, it never is.
“I didn’t really trust him anymore," Connell, 35, told USA TODAY. "I didn’t feel respected. I felt resentful.”
Connell, who posts about motherhood, marriage and work on social media, has told this story dozens of times: How she asked her husband to help out more around the house, how he did for a while, and then how one day he stopped. And the crushing feeling of loneliness she experienced.
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