Hello again and welcome to 4-play radio sex therapy. I'm your host certified

sex therapist Lori Watson, author of wanting sex again and blogger as

Psychology Today and WebMD and I have with me Dr. Adam Matthews

my co-host who's a couples therapist psychotherapist and president of

NCAMFT. Forplay is dedicated to helping couples keep it hot.

Thanks for listening now on to today's topic.

So we're going to talk today about menopause.

Do we have to?

Yes, we do. Yes, we do. It's very important. We have had an outcry of people dying to hear about menopause.

Okay. And I'm sure you're really looking for it. Who is that outcry coming

from? From lots of our listeners who are going through menopause. The change.

Okay. It's called the change. Okay.

It's called the change.

Hopefully it means not just the physiological change, but a change of your life.

Is that a derogatory term for it or is that an accurate description of it? What is the change?

I don't know. It's an old term. It's kind of like it came about about the same time

the curse came about you know when I was growing up your period, getting your period was called the curse.

Oh, that is so, that's terrible.

I know, gosh, awful.

And menopause was called the change. So I guess, what do we change into is the question

when we hit menopause?

So I thought I'd just talk about, you know, what is menopause,

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