Menopause Confidential

Have you or your partner reached ?that? time of life? Are you going through ?the change?? Is it causing problems for you? Are you suffering? Are you embarrassed to mention the word ?menopause?? Does it fill you with fear? Usha Phadke believes that the menopause should not be a taboo subject: all women will experience it, and their partners will be affected too. So why not talk about it more openly? It?s a fact of life. As well as drawing on her own experience, Usha presents reflections from six women and six men on what the menopause means in their lives. Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, these honest accounts say that whoever you are, and whatever stage of mid-life you might have reached, you?re not alone. Others are experiencing the same changes, the same obstacles, the same fears ? and women and men are in it together. Menopause is not the end of the road: so support each other, get through it, and there?s plenty of life left to live!