Molly Webster

Like, what do they do during that time?

And I feel like I've gotten to a point in my reporting where I'm much more interested in the what they're doing than the why does this happen, if that makes any sense.

And at some point, I also remembered that there is, of course, that third animal that goes through menopause and has a long post-reproductive life.

Everyone feels good, strong.

Yes.

And so I called up one of them.

Yes.

I mean, to be fair, Caroline also wrote an entire book that's basically a study of how women live their lives after menopause.

And so I went to her and I asked her like, OK, there's Granny, there's Garbo.

Now tell me about Caroline.

I love that.

I'm like, Heather just got her driver's license.

Yeah, I didn't just get it, but I am learning how to drive alone on the road.

So, you know, everyone's in a different moment of their life.

To each their own adventure.

Anyway, back to Caroline.

When she started to have menopause symptoms or really perimenopause symptoms.

In what sense is that the case?

Whoa.

But this all kind of tracked with what she was expecting to happen because she, like kind of all of us, had heard that this time in her life would be pretty brutal.