Bettina & Her Menopause.

She preferred seclusion.

Photo by Milada Vigerova on Unsplash

"What's the problem with you, Bettina? Everyone at the women's club asks if you are ill. You have been absent for three months! Why?"

I talk to Bettina at a surprise visit at her front door as she does not answer the telephone.

"Come in, come in quick, I do not want people to see me!" she says. So we sit at her kitchen table…