Marriage and Menopause

Sleep and menopause is the thing nobody warned us about. For two years Judy woke up at three in the morning. Not most nights. Every single night. And falling asleep got hard first, an hour or more of ...

1 Sep 18min

Menopause brain fog took the one thing Judy never worried about losing. She taught for twenty two years and did math in her head faster than her students could do it on paper. Then she started standin...

25 Aug 15min

Menopause joint pain took eight years of my life before a single doctor said the word hormones.I was forty four when my shoulder locked up so bad I couldn't lift my arm to put on my own bra. David had...

18 Aug 17min

No morning wood. That's what Judy noticed first, weeks before David ever said a word.In this episode, Judy tells David's story: the signs of low testosterone in men that showed up quietly inside their...

11 Aug 10min

Will Our Marriage Survive This?They both thought about leaving. Not each other. Themselves.David sat in his car in the driveway one night and didn't know if he had anything left. Judy thought about wa...

4 Aug 9min

She wasn't pulling away from him. Her body pulled away first.Judy spent two years thinking her body had just stopped working, that this was who she was now. David spent that same two years wondering i...

28 Jul 23min

Perimenopause communication breakdown built a wall between two people who still loved each other and didn't know how to get back to one another.Judy went quiet to protect herself. David went quiet bec...

21 Jul 17min

Perimenopause rage nearly ended our marriage over a coffee cup. Not the fights you'd expect. A coffee cup left on the counter, and Judy screamed like it was the end of the world. She didn't know why. ...

14 Jul 16min