Evidence and boundaries

What this is

An educational conversation aid. It helps two adults describe their own experience and agree one practical step. It is not therapy, medical advice, diagnosis, a validated assessment, a screening instrument or treatment.

This exercise has not been clinically validated. The sources below support general background education. They do not validate this exercise, and no clinical review, user testing or outcome evaluation has been carried out.

What can reasonably be said

Perimenopause can affect sleep, mood, daily life and sexual desire. This exercise cannot establish what is causing any individual's changes, because many other things affect sleep, patience and closeness. Persistent or worrying changes deserve review by a health professional.

Background sources

healthdirect's perimenopause page is the core reference here. It is a current Australian government-funded health source, and it carries official links to resources for partners and families.

These sources support general background education. None of them validates this exercise, and nothing here should be read as a claim of clinical validation or effectiveness.

How your answers are handled

Your responses are held only in the memory of the page you are using. Refreshing, resetting or leaving the page clears them.
Nothing you type is written to local storage, cookies, a database, a log, a web address, analytics or email. Nothing is sent to an AI service.
Copy, download and print are deliberate actions you take. Copies you make live outside this exercise, and from then on you are responsible for where they go.
Hosting and network services process ordinary technical requests, such as page loads. We cannot promise complete anonymity, that no data exists anywhere, any compliance certification, or that your browser history will be erased.
There are no accounts, no child accounts, and no device-to-device syncing.

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