'Emotional labour' doesn't mean doing things you don't want to do. It was coined by US sociologist Arlie Hochschild in the 1980s. She used fast-food workers and flight attendants' performances as eternally smiley, happy employees as canonical examples of emotional labour at work.

Hochschild elaborated: emotional labour "centrally involves trying to feel the right feeling for the job. This involves evoking and suppressing feelings...Teachers, nursing-home attendants, and child-care workers are examples." They manage, perform and project feelings for work.

Household labour isn't emotional labour, it is *labour*, and should be honoured and paid as such. Educating someone about your perspective on something you feel they should already know isn't emotional labour.