# Social Connections (the people factor) ##### Your Perimenopause Blueprint Workshop ---  --- ## Summary > - Perimenopause affects family, friends, intimate relationships, work, and culture. > - Those relationships and circumstances also affect perimenopause. > - We are not supposed to do this alone; we need to gather our tribe. --- ## Transcript So from there we've also got social connections. So this is, again, the people factor. We're looking at how perimenopause affects our family, friends, intimate relationships, work, and culture. But it's also how all these things affect your perimenopause as well. This will make a difference. How our culture perceives perimenopause, or how your work colleagues, family, and friends perceive it—all of this has an impact. The other thing is, looking at these social connections, perimenopause is not something we're supposed to do alone. I do think we need that red tent. We need to gather our tribe, our women who are going to support us. It's a huge transition in our lives, and we need social connections. So that's your social connections.