'We are taught to dread menopause but this time of life is a new beginning as well as an ending.' 🔵 Sharon Blackie
, and as subject to drastic mood swings, forgetfulness and laughable hot flushes.
We’re told that we should still, above all things, disguise ourselves as young women in order to be sexually attractive to prospective or existing partners at 60. We’re told that a reduction in libido at this stage in our lives is abnormal: something to panic about, to fix – again, to, when many women are actually quite content to slip naturally into a phase of life which is much less focused on their sexuality.
These attitudes aside, the problems that many women face in adjusting to menopause are simply down to the fact of living in a culture thatfor key transitions. We’re not permitted to take time out, so many of us try to carry on exactly as we were before. Being everything to everybody. Holding down the job, still looking after the kids, the cats, the partner, trying to soldier on as if nothing were happening, and medicating ourselves to cover the inevitable cracks.And then we wonder why we break.
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