Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.
Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.
Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's.
Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.
In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.
The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help.
Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!
Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I'm going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising.