Decontructing menopause

Rico says he's been through it twice now with the women in his life, and didn't much enjoy it either time. It's not just the hot flashes and the moodiness (all that comes with the territory), but it's the loss of interest in sex, which men don't usually lose (alas) for many more years.

 

There are a number of ways of dealing with this, but Rico cannot take either the Henry the Eighth  (photo, top) solution, to replace your suddenly-executed wife with a new one (eight times, if history serves), nor the Hugh Hefner (photo, bottom; note the smug grin on his face) solution, who's rich enough to divorce them (after claiming to have slept with a thousand women along the way) and marry a new one like Crystal Harris, who's all of twenty-six...

But, in the end, as Rico's old boss, Brian Fitzgerald, used to say: You do not have to like it, you just have to do it...