New Delhi: For years, menopause has been framed as a “women-only issue”, discussed quietly, privately, and usually only when symptoms become unbearable. But this approach has left out half the population — men , who unknowingly play a major role in how a woman experiences this transition.

The exclusion isn’t deliberate; it’s cultural. We educate boys about puberty, yet we never teach them about their mothers, wives’, or colleagues’ midlife hormonal changes. The result? When women in their 40s and 50s experience anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, sleep disturbances, or emotional fluctuations, the men around them often misread these as personality shifts, stress, or moodiness. What they’re actually witnessing is biology — not behaviour.

And this misunderstanding carries real consequences. Man

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