When one person carries it all You've tidied the house, cooked dinner, and put the kids to bed. Your partner has too. And yet, one of you is still lying awake at 11pm mentally running through tomorrow's lunchboxes, the overdue dentist appointment, and whether you RSVPed to that birthday party. That quiet, relentless hum of domestic thinking: the planning, the remembering, the anticipating. It has a name. It's called the mental load. And for many couples, it's one of the most