Menopause

Finding the Positives in Menopause

Partly from a childfree-by-choice perspective

Photo by Simon Hurry on Unsplash

Perhaps it’s just down to the demographic of writers I follow, or maybe it’s the season (we have just had Menopause Awareness Week after all), but I’m reading a lot of reflections on menopause lately.

The symptoms of peri-menopause sound particularly awful, though as someone who’s freezing cold all the time, the hot flushes might turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

Although it’s presumably a way off for me yet, the onward march of time and approach of middle age still give me pause. And every time menopause crosses my mind it worries me a little, because Cod, do y’all make it sound miserable. Every article here about menopause is just anguish and pain.

It got to the point where I was getting quite stressed thinking about it, knowing that this horrible, ruinous life event was looming ahead of me. So I decided to really think about what it was that was scaring me so much about it and I realised that it doesn’t have to be the same for everyone — there might even be some positives.

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