Perimenopause: The Holy Return Of Sarcasm

a midlife reckoning + self-abandonment

If my last post pregnant or perimenopause? was about the quiet shifting of hormones, this one is about the fire it’s lit.

Several years ago, I was told that I was too sarcastic. The people who told me this were at two different companies I worked for in London—both of them my male bosses. I can’t remember exactly how I reacted in the moment, but when I r…