Friendship as support through perimenopause symptoms
Friendship networks often thin just when women need them most. Moves, divorce, caregiving, demanding work, and children leaving home can expose how much social connection once depended on convenience. Franco uses attachment research to explain initiative, vulnerability, affection, conflict, and the assumption that other people already have enough friends. Perimenopause symptoms may make withdrawal feel easier, but isolation can deepen the sense of navigating change alone. Read through a midlife lens, the book treats friendship as a practice rather than a lucky discovery. Belonging grows when someone risks reaching out, follows through, and stops waiting to be chosen first.
About Marisa G. Franco
Marisa G. Franco has described one friendship as her longest love story. Her attachment research became personal proof that commitment, affection, and life partnership need not be ranked below romance—an insight that reshaped how she understood her own adult relationships.
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