"Emotional labor" is something men basically expect from women 24/7, regardless of if they're in a relationship with them or not. If you don't believe me, feel free to listen to the absolute banger of a song "labour" by Paris Paloma, or take a gander at these 15 screenshots. Prepare to feel super seen and also super annoyed:
1. This man slept through a lunch date and then blamed HIS DATE for not waking him up:
8. This boyfriend who pretended to be too helpless to cook, and then got angry when his girlfriend went out of town and "left him to starve" for a week:
12. This man who expected a woman he was seeing to text him every single second of every single day, and had a meltdown when she had the audacity to be busy: