Partners are welcome to join us.

If midlife intimacy feels harder than anyone warned you, then you are not imagining it.

The kids have grown, and the house is quieter. You and your partner are standing in a season you were too busy to plan for. For years the relationship ran on logistics: schedules, school runs, who picks up whom. But now the noise has cleared. So what remains is the two of you, looking at each other, quietly wondering who you both are now.

That question is not a sign something has broken. Instead, it is the honest start of a new chapter. And it lands right in the middle of perimenopause and menopause, while your body and moods shift on their own timeline. Estrogen changes. Sleep changes. Desire changes. But you are not the only one changing, because your partner is moving through midlife shifts too. And no one told most couples how those changes collide, or how to talk about them.

This free, live conversation brings together three Vetted Konenki Providers. Together they help you make sense of midlife intimacy from three angles at once: the relationship itself, the biology underneath it, and the identity you are growing into. First, you will hear how a partnership that once revolved around parenting can revolve around each other again. Then you will learn what actually shifts hormonally, for women and for men. And you will see why staying connected matters for far more than the bedroom. So you will leave seeing this stretch of midlife as steadier and warmer than the one before it.

This is where you stop figuring it out alone.

What You Will Gain

• A real answer to “what now?” as parenting winds down, and a calm way to raise it with your partner.
• A clearer picture of what your body is doing now, and why your desire and energy have shifted.
• An understanding of what your partner may be moving through too, so the changes stop feeling like yours alone.
• Reasons that staying close, physically and emotionally, is good for your brain and body, not only your relationship.
• A sense that this season can be a beginning, not a loss, and a clear first step toward support.

Who This Is For

• Women whose youngest has just left, and who are unsure what the relationship looks like without kids at the center.
• Women who feel more like co-managers than partners after years of running a household.
• Women in perimenopause or menopause who notice their desire, mood, or sense of self shifting, with nowhere to take it.
• Women without children who are moving through midlife and partnership, and want a conversation that includes them.
• Women who want to reconnect with their partner but do not know where to start.

About the Speakers

Russell Betts | Russell Betts & Associates, LLC

On the relationship shift. How a partnership built around raising children can be rebuilt around each other once the parenting role recedes.

Russell Betts is a relational intelligence researcher, author, and speaker focused on helping individuals, couples, and organizations build relationships that hold under pressure. He is the international bestselling author of The Good Husband’s Guide to Menopause and the founder of Connected Through Change, a platform dedicated to strengthening communication, trust, and relational resilience during life transitions. His work introduces a design-oriented approach to relationships, moving beyond personality and emotion to address structure, clarity, and capacity.

Nancy J. Roy, AG-ACNP-BC | Innovative Health & Well Being

On the biology underneath it. What is actually happening hormonally in midlife, for women and for men, and why connection matters for the brain and body.

Nancy J. Roy is a board-certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner licensed in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with full prescriptive authority and DEA licensure in both states. She brings more than twenty years of healthcare experience and a clinical background that includes Urology and Gastroenterology. Nancy has completed both primary and advanced hormone replacement therapy training through Dr. Rachel Rubin and Dr. Heather Hirsch and is a member of the Menopause Society and ISSWSH. She is a graduate of the Women’s Integrative and Functional Medicine Certification course taught by Dr. Aviva Romm. As the founder of Innovative Health & Well Being, Nancy offers personalized, attentive care that honors the full complexity of women’s health during perimenopause and menopause.

Micheline Foss, MS, MEd., CSMC | Aging Boldly

On who you are becoming. The identity shift of midlife, and how to step into this chapter as more than the role you are leaving behind.

Micheline Foss is a Menopause Specialist Life Coach who guides women through life’s most demanding transitions, including career pivots, perimenopause, and midlife. A certified menopause specialist, life coach, and former international school counselor with over a decade of global experience, she addresses the full spectrum of changes women face, from hormonal shifts to identity transformation. Drawing on her cross-cultural expertise, Micheline created the Resilient-Rest Playbook, a practical framework that empowers women to cultivate sustainable well-being through any transition.

Partners are encouraged to attend.