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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.

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Emotional labour

n.The work of managing your feelings because a role requires it.

Arlie Hochschild, 1983Established psychological concept

Hochschild's term was about paid work. Its everyday use — meaning unpaid domestic thought-work — is a later extension.

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