Hot flushes, mood swings, creeping spare tires around the midriff – we are all familiar with the big M and its effects on us as we hit ‘that’ age. Few women sail through menopause with ease, and some of us have an exceedingly difficult time of it.
Thankfully, we live in an era where we can discuss, commiserate, and help each other. There is now a greater awareness amongst medical doctors and also a plethora of diet and exercise gurus who specialise in helping us through these years and giving the best advice available.
Hopefully, husbands, children, and other family members will be sufficiently tuned in to understand what is going on and have sympathy for this turn of events, maybe even help in some way. If this is you, how lucky you are.
But they know you, don’t they? They live with you every day, and they have witnessed you break out in irrational, sudden sweats in the middle of a restaurant.
They have watched with amazement as you suddenly strip off every possible garment that can be shed. ‘Is everything coming off?’ they have wondered.
At home, they know you occasionally dive into the fridge, not to search for a yoghurt, but just to get some blessed cooling relief. They know, t...