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Sad to see wo many taken in by the clickbait headline which doesn't reflect the tone of the article, if the Rage Seeker had taken the trouble to read he's surely see it as a quite reasonable comment on the reality of relationships nowadays. :
Rarely has anything good come from a word by putting the prefix ‘man’ in front of it to make a whole new term. Mansplaining, manspreader, man flu, manterrupting. And now, I’ve heard a new one: ‘mankeeping’. The term refers to a situation where women help a male partner through his psychological problems. It’s the unspoken, unpaid and completely joyless work of emotionally and practically managing a grown man.
Much of this supposed phenomenon has roots in the ‘male loneliness epidemic’, according to the Stanford University researchers who coined the phrase last year. (See! It isn’t the fabrication of a journalist who is looking for something to write and is on deadline.) According to them, men’s social circles shrink as they get older, resulting in a situation where men don’t get an opportunity to emotionally offload to colleagues, old schoolmates, or the lads they play five-a-side with.
“A whole generation of men don’t feel comfortable opening up to their male friends, which means some of them dump their worries on their female partner,” reads an explainer on the term in The Guardian. “It’s an extension of emotional labour — remembering birthdays, organising social calendars — but effectively it requires the partner to act as an unpaid therapist.”
Granted, there’s a lot to be said for our culture’s love of slapping a jazzy new term on something that’s perceived as a shift in culture or behaviour.
But is it just me, or is all of this simply… sharing your problems with your spouse? Is this not entirely normal, acceptable behaviour within a healthy and positive relationship? A sign of maturity, compassion and being emotionally evolved? Where’s the issue, exactly? Is providing emotional support to someone you care for now part of the already burdensome ‘mental load’? And surely it’s something that cuts both ways? Is this not an entirely reciprocal thing? It is in this household, where I have absolutely no hesitation in bringing home a decent whinge/problem/dilemma to my husband and completely spraying him with it.
So what happens when women bring home a problem to be shared and discussed with a male partner? Are these guys ‘womankeeping’?
I have an Image in my mind now of being "completely sprayed by her".
Lol
'Are yoooo into the old rimming' says she.
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