Happy you’re in perimenopause or menopause but you still have to work day!

Because you aren't done yet. Not by a long shot.

Screenshot courtesy The Bear.

One of the most heartbreaking scenes in the recent third season of one of the most beautifully heartbreaking shows, The Bear, was dedicated to a perimenopause-aged woman named Tina Marrero.

If you haven’t watched The Bear, it’s an American show centered in a restaurant, circled around a blood and assembled family, with lots of dysfunction and a ton of shouting. The episode told the backstory of a cook-turned-chef, played so well by the actress and playwright Liza Colón-Zayas. When she lost her office job after 15 years, her little modest-living family already financially squeezed, Tina kept getting up at 6am, loading up the crockpot and pounding the pavement. No luck and many indignities suffered. At the end of her rope, she ended up the restaurant where she would not only end up working, but thriving, becoming a the group’s matriarch and getting her groove back too.

But first, on that very bad day, over a free sandwich and a cup of coffee, in front of a ki…