The panic attacks and the brain fog were blamed on pressure at work, and I even decided my night sweats were the result of taking too many supplements.Īs the former beauty director of Good Housekeeping magazine, I wrote about the menopause for years, but it didn’t occur to me that I might be perimenopausal. The frequent low moods? They were due to upsetting family issues.
We put my anger outbursts down to stress. We talk about pretty much everything, but when my menopausal symptoms first hit six years ago, it blindsided us both. My husband, Andy, and I have been together for 25 years and we have a 13-year-old daughter. Yet, latest research tells us that this turbulent period in a woman’s life is a relationship saboteur that can be as devastating as infidelity and debt.
When you fall in love as vibrant twenty-somethings the last thing you imagine is that two decades down the line you’ll be sitting together on a psychotherapist’s couch having menopause counselling.
