to 5:30pm — where I am not okay to hug, not up for small talk, and definitely not equipped to calmly explain why the frozen-pizza dinner plan fell apart again. I call it my witching hour. If you're in perimenopause or menopause and your partner is standing there confused, hurt, or bracing for impact, this one's for you.Here's the analogy I keep coming back to: men have a baseline of testosterone humming along fairly consistently. Our hormones? More like an EKG machine — spiking, dropping, doing something different every single day. That constant shift is exactly why the same conversation that felt totally fine on Monday can feel unbearable by Thursday at 4pm. It's not inconsistency. It's biology.The men in our lives often go through their own version of this — the classic midlife crisis, the sports car, the sudden need for adventure. Ours looks different: reassessing identity, body image, libido, and what we can and can't control, all while our emotional "scale" gets turned up. Sounds like you? So what actually helps? Give this episode a listen to find out things that help!