Perimenopause Explained

Episode 4: It's Not You. A Partner's Guide to Perimenopause.


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This episode isn't for her. It's for you.

If someone sent you this, it's because she's trying to reach you in the best way she knows how. And if you're willing to listen for 17 minutes, this episode will give you more clarity than most men ever get about what's actually happening to the woman they love.

Crystal Burke, NP and Dr. Steven Youngblood — partners in life and in medicine — talk honestly about what perimenopause looks like from both sides of the relationship. Steve shares what it was like to watch Crystal go through it without either of them knowing what it was. Crystal explains what was actually happening in her body, her brain, and her sense of self.

In this episode:

🔹 Why she's not doing this on purpose and has almost no control over it 

🔹 Why her emotional reactions may seem completely out of proportion — and why that's physiological, not personal 

🔹 What's actually happening to her libido and why it's not about you 

🔹 How to bring it up if you figured it out before she did 

🔹 What to do if she doesn't want treatment 

🔹 The one thing every partner needs to hear

Plus a rapid fire Q&A answering the questions partners are actually asking but don't know how to say out loud.

It's not you. It's not her. It's biology. And now you'll know what to do with that.

🎙️ Perimenopause Explained by The Menopause Clinic in New Orleans. 

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