WHAT IT IS – MALE-MENOPAUSE 4

And at home, after ten to fifteen years of marriage many feel trapped by a life over which they have no control. There are the responsibilities of mortgage, children’s education, perhaps also aging parents. And then there is sex, or the lack of it.

By good fortune many men miss the male-menopause entirely because a lucky turn has taken place at exactly the right moment and given their lives the impetus and change other men with M-M are striving for. It could be a change of work that has saved them, maybe a promotion to a more interesting work field or, perhaps, a chance to move home to a better neighbourhood — anything that seems like a beneficial fresh start. Because, for all the references made to getting older, this is not essentially a quest for eternal youth. It is a crisis about change. Change and the chance of a fresh start.

A lament once voiced about different matters by novelist Edna O’Brien aptly sums up all a menopausal man asks at this time.

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