It would make sense for us to think that our menopausal experience would mirror that of our moms, but most of us have no idea what our mothers experiences were because most of our moms never spoke about it, or perhaps back then, sharing their  thoughts and feelings would have gained them an unwanted label, or maybe they didn’t quite know what they were experiencing themselves. I can’t ever remember that being a subject in our home, and my mother was very big on educating my brother and I on the important things of life.  But really,  how could she  know in depth about this, if she wasn’t around women herself, that had gone through it and shared their experiences with her, her mother was dead by the time my mother was 16.

When it came to menopause, my experience was quite different than my mom’s,  first off,  my mother didn’t start going through menopause until she was in her late fifties, I was 37.  I so remember my mom having these crazy hot flashes accompanied with sound affects, and sweat dripping from her face Lol!  It was funny back then, but oh!  How I now know what she was going through.  I can’t really recall if she dealt with any emotional issues,  looking back I can say that I remember her being a little more sensitive in certain situations,  but nothing more than that.
I couldn’t understand why I started going through menopause so much earlier than my mom,  I was told that women who started to menstruate at an earlier age would most likely go into menopause earlier,  I guess that would make sense,  I started my period at around 11 or 12 and my mom started when she was in her teens.  There are women though, that do have the same menopausal experiences as their mothers. Not sure if anyone knows the rhyme or reason, it is what it is.