W bought a book yesterday called The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change. She hasn’t started it yet, but I thumbed through it, and read the preview at amazon.com.
It seems to convey the attitude that women aren’t their true selves until the perimenipausal lifting of the hormonal veil. In other words, they are conditioned into the nurturing role by hormones and societal norms. Now that these hormones are no longer obscuring their vision, their inner wisdom surfaces to show them the injustice in their lives.
I’m going to have to read the rest of this book. The first part is pretty scary (for me), but my W has a good head on her shoulders, and hopefully will see that there’s more to it than that.
We have a friend (MF from previous threads) whose W has multiple sclerosis. She’s also going through menopause, and making MF’s life miserable.
