{"id":68272,"date":"2025-07-16T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=68272"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:59:34","slug":"mankeeping-is-draining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=68272","title":{"rendered":"Mankeeping Is Draining"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"moz-reader-content reader-show-element\">\n<div id=\"readability-page-1\" class=\"page\">\n<div>\n<p>A growing number of women are choosing to avoid dating and relationships, and the reason might surprise you. It\u2019s not about independence or lack of interest. It\u2019s about emotional burnout.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Stanford call it \u201cmankeeping\u201d. It\u2019s the name they\u2019ve given to the unpaid emotional work women often carry in their relationships with men.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/innerstrength.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4a-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"769\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few decades, men\u2019s social circles have gotten smaller. Women, on the other hand, still maintain broader support networks.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that, men are leaning on the women in their lives for emotional support. It\u2019s not just partners either, but also friends, coworkers and even family.<\/p>\n<p>That dependence builds pressure. Women end up being the ones always checking in, giving advice, and holding everything together.<\/p>\n<p>Angelica Ferrara, one of the researchers on the study, feels that some women spend several hours a week helping men in those relationships with their social and emotional well-being.<\/p>\n<p>She also explained what \u201cmankeeping\u201d looks like. It includes three main tasks: offering emotional support, maintaining social connections, and teaching social skills.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/innerstrength.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4b-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"769\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Basically, women often become the emotional safety net. They\u2019re the ones reminding their partners to reach out to friends or showing them how to actually listen.<\/p>\n<p>They also end up coaching men on how to communicate better. Ferrara said this work is mostly invisible, but it\u2019s constant and draining.<\/p>\n<p>This overload is pushing some women to give up. Many are \u201cquiet-quitting\u201d their relationships, staying physically present but emotionally checked out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2020\/08\/20\/personal-experiences-and-attitudes-of-daters\/\">Another study<\/a> showed women are now 23% less likely to want to date than men. It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t want companionship, they\u2019re just tired of doing all the work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=68251\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of women are choosing to avoid dating and relationships, and the reason might surprise you. It\u2019s not about independence or lack of interest. It\u2019s&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68274,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68272\/revisions\/68274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}