“If we don’t define roles with love, we inherit them with resentment.”

This episode is a real, unfiltered look into what it means to navigate traditional gender roles in a modern, conscious relationship, especially when both people are doing the work, both want to be held, and neither wants to live in a performance.

From emotional labor to who leads in what moment, we talk about the messy middle, the part no one tells you how to do.

We ask each other the raw questions:
Who holds the structure?
Who holds the emotional tone?
What if we both don’t want to lead?
What if we both do?

We’re not giving you answers, we’re giving you our lived experience. And hopefully, permission to find your own.

🔥 Here’s What We Dive Into:

The emotional cost of holding it all (and who usually does)
Why polarity isn’t a betrayal of feminism, and why we’ve wrestled with both
The hidden guilt of craving traditional structure
The provider wound, how it shows up in both of us, in different ways
Why “fair” doesn’t always mean 50/50
The difference between conscious roles and inherited roles
How we’ve made peace with leading, surrendering, switching, and asking

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