Parenting Burnout, as American as Apple Pie

Even with an equal partner, I’m still drowning in life’s duties, are we just set up to fail?

Photo by Hugo Aitken on Unsplash

I’m standing in the kitchen, doing the dishes. I hear my kid and my husband in the living room. Playing. Giggling. I put food-encrusted silverware into the dishwasher. One of our dogs looks at me plaintively, silently begging to clean…