“I Don’t Want to Think About Perimenopause” — Why So Many of Us Avoid It, and Why That Can Cost Us
Maybe you have caught yourself doing it. Someone mentions perimenopause — a friend, a podcast, an article like this one — and something in you quietly changes the subject. Not me. Not yet. I’d rather not go there. I don’t want to think about it.
Perhaps you tell yourself you want to stay natural and avoid medication. Perhaps you feel too young for any of this to apply to you. Or perhaps you have simply decided to get on with it quietly, without any fuss, because that is what “strong” women do.