how do you accept and make peace with the fact that invisible labor probably won't be acknowledged and appreciated?

Like from your partner?

You don't. You don't have to accept that from a partner or society.

I don’t accept that, my mom tries to tell me “well you know the reality” and just take it like water off a ducks back as if that’s just how the world will always work, but I don’t believe that.

I have dreams that the world will operate within a gift economy, not a market economy. (Gift economies place focus on social bonds rather than profit)

I don’t, I vetted the man for 7 years before I married him. I tell my husband what it takes to run this house and look after these kids and he makes an effort to help me, even hiring help for me. He also does the work too on his off days so I can have a break.

Even as his girlfriend I told him early on that if he needs things done he has to meet me at least halfway. Things don’t appear in drawers clean and folded magically, glass isn’t cleaning itself after showers, the fridge doesn’t replenish itself.

I refuse to be unappreciated. I know my value and what my time is worth and so does he xx