It was a flash!
On the one hand, that flood is a very good thing.
Finally, a health issue that affects half the population is getting its due as research-worthy.
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Obviously, a lot of good can come of that.
But you know what also comes of that?
(For some great insights into menopause marketing, readthis.)
I answered the thoughtful questions thoughtfully, but not without suspicion.
Their motivation, overall?
Not especially bringing menopause into the open, but bringing you and your open wallet into the market.
What isnt predetermined is how you cope with your symptoms.
bleeding into your little flowered cotton underpants.
What Im saying is this: Menopause isnt unlike all the other transitions youve survived.
Weird shit happens, and then it stops.
(Though some of it lingers as a small percentage of women have hot flashes post-menopause.)
Yes, there is some loss involvedof juiciness, agility, and hardest of all, sleep.
But life goes on.
(I really miss the gunning engine of desire.
But Im enjoying a more languorous, luxurious kind of intimacy than I knew in my youth.)
For all the adjustments, whatever the gains and losses, its the poignancy I cherish.
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