Product 09 · Relationships
The Relationship &
Communication Guide
Perimenopause changes how you communicate, what you need, and what you're no longer willing to accept. This journal helps you understand those changes — and navigate them with the people you love, work with, and live alongside.
£6.99
Instant download · 11 pages · 6 binder sizes · Ink-Saver + GoodNotes editions
General information, not medical advice. Speak to your GP or a menopause specialist about your own care.
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11 pages · Partner, family & work
Navigating the people around you
Perimenopause affects every relationship — partner, family, work, friendships. This journal gives it the space it deserves.
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Cover, title page, how to use & worked example
Where to start, plus selected example pages.
Read first
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Introduction
What this is — a space to work out what you need from the people around you, and how to ask for it — and what it isn't: a script, a rulebook or couples therapy.
Print once
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What I Need Right Now
What you need more of and less of, what you find hard to ask for, and what you wish people understood. "You are allowed to need things."
Return often
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My Partner
If applicable: how perimenopause has affected the relationship, what you wish they understood, what's working, and one thing you could ask for this week.
As needed
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My Family
How you show up for family now, where you feel you're falling short, where you're doing better than you think, and one conversation you want to have.
As needed
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At Work
How symptoms affect your work, what you wish colleagues or your manager understood, adjustments that would help, and whether you've disclosed.
As needed
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When I Can't Explain It
Bad-day phrases to adapt and share with the people close to you: "Today is a difficult day. What I need is…"
Bad days
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Quarterly Relationship Review
A relationship that's strengthened, one that needs attention, what you asked for that you were afraid to, and how you're showing up differently.
Each quarter
In every download
- ✓ Print edition: all 11 pages in 6 sizes (A4, A5, Half Letter, Personal/Filofax, A6, Happy Planner Classic), each with hole-punch guides. Undated, so print any page as often as you need.
- ✓ Ink-Saver edition: the same 6 sizes with white pages and a light cover, about 85% less ink for home printing.
- ✓ GoodNotes / Notability edition: 22 linked pages with side tabs, contents, index, outline, previous/next links, 6 notes pages and a dark or light cover. Includes 4 linked quarterly relationship reviews.
- ✓ 63 digital stickers (transparent PNG) and a one-page Start Here guide.