Dear Kodi:

You are very welcome. You called your perimenopause experience “a fairly new addition“.

“Then I felt really guilty. I don’t feel like I have a support system to lean on because my husband and parents are sick of hearing me complain”-

– how about another fairly new addition to your life: support and empathy for yourself. No more feeling guilty for being in pain, or for feeling miserable, or for feeling anything at all that you are feeling.

I am sorry, Kodi, that you have suffered for so long. I wish you didn’t suffer at all, but since you do suffer- as we all do, to one extent or another, at any one time- minimize your suffering by peeling off unnecessary pain (guilt, shame, overthinking, etc.) from pain that you have to deal with (ex. perimenopause)?

I will soon be away from the computer, but would like to read more from you anytime you feel like posting. Here you can share all that you feel and it will not be too much for me to read.

anita