You’re not the first person to confuse or (unintentionally) misrepresent the term emotional labor.

“The phrase “emotional labor” was actually coined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild in her 1983 book The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, and refers to “a situation where the way a person manages his or her emotions is regulated by a work-related entity in order to shape the state of mind of another individual, such as a customer.”

By your definition, why is only domestic labor considered emotional?