She Keeps Canceling. This Is Perimenopause.

She canceled again. Not dramatically. She texted an hour before, said she was exhausted, said she was sorry, said next week for sure. And it is the fourth time, and you are starting to wonder what is actually going on. Whether you did something. Whether she is depressed. Whether the friendship is quietly ending and nobody has said so out loud. Or maybe it is not canceling. Maybe it is that she seems flat when you do see her. Shorter than she used to be. Distracted in the middle of a conversation, then apologizing for losing the thread. Maybe she snapped at you over something that did not warrant it, and neither of you mentioned it afterward. Maybe she has just gone quieter, and you cannot name when it started. If she is somewhere between her late thirties and her mid-fifties, there is a (...)

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