Michelle A HardwickMichelle A. Hardwick is a therapist and health practitioner with over 25 years in private practice and a woman who knows firsthand that menopause is never just one person's journey.The seed for this book was planted during a chance online encounter a a speed networking event. A man named Richard shared his story. He explained how desperately he had wished for support during his wife's menopause journey. Their relationship hadn't survived. He also spoke candidly about how the strain of that journey had affected them both, long before either of them truly understood what they were dealing with. It was Michelle's thunderbolt moment. Her ah-ha. Her "Oh. My. God!" realisation. In ten years of navigating her own menopause journey, through the losses, the grief, the pain and the change... she had never once stopped to consider what her husband was going through. His perspective. His losses. His experience of standing beside her through it all.That same call connected her with a publisher. The pieces fell into place with the kind of synchronicity that feels less like coincidence and more like inevitability. Together, they recognised a profound gap. The partners, spouses and loved ones deeply affected by menopause, but with nowhere to turn for guidance or understanding.What followed was a journey of its own. Michelle drew on her 25+ years of professional experience, her own decade navigating menopause alongside her husband John, the stories of her clients and their relationships and the honest, unfiltered survey responses of men from different countries - men who answered six questions about their experience with a raw honesty that will stop you in your tracks.The result is the guide she wishes had existed for couples like Richard's. And like hers. Because menopause is not a solojourney. It is a shared experience that touches entire families and relationships.Michelle lives in County Cork, Ireland, with her husband John and their beautiful rescue dog, Keela. Read More Read Less