I came across this excellent synopsis of what can happen to a marriage when menopause erases the numbing aspects of estrogen to reveal every crack in a woman's foundation. Here Linda Cooper beautifully describes the unmooring of a woman's life because "her entire nervous system, her identity, her unresolved history, and her deepest unlived truths all converge at once". Please check out When Menopause Restructures a Marriage. For those of you interested in exploring the mechanics behind women's conditioning, the patriarchy, and the multitude of ways we absorb until we feel we are drowning, and how our relationship can be blindsided by this transition, and result in a temptation to blow up your life...this one is for you.
