"The fact that menopause is a couple's problem says a lot about how we experience sex."

"What begins with dancing can only be remembered with a smile." Physiotherapist Mireia Grossmann says this, referring to one of the love stories that most influenced her. "He wasn't my first partner, nor my last, but I have very sweet memories." Grossmann was 25 years old and every Friday she went dancing traditional dances with live music in Plaça del Rei. There she met Manel, "one of those boys that mothers like." One day he accompanied her on the subway and, "like in a movie," as the doors were about to close, he gave her a quick kiss.

Grossmann explains that at that time she lived in a very Catalan bubble and that Manel, from an Andalusian family, opened her eyes to traditions and landscapes she hadn't been familiar with. He also passed on to her the culture of "closing ranks" with his family. "I had a very distant relationship with my brother: we didn't speak. Manolo didn't understand. 'How can this be?' he would say to me, and little by little he helped me get closer to my brother. Now we have a very good relationship," the physiotherapist celebrates.

At home, she received her first lesson about what love was from her father. "I remember him making me sit on his knee and saying: 'Love is very easy, Mireia; treat others as you would want to be treated, and don't do to them what you wouldn't want done to you.' I was little, but I remember this phrase a lot. My father was a good man, so I thought the good man, so I thought the father.

Now that she's 58, she says she "goes out with herself" and likes herself, although sometimes "we also argue, like all couples." "Living alone is a phase that everyone should go through. Sometimes we are with others so much that we don't know who we are," she defends.

Menopause, adds Grossmann, "is a period in which, if you don't have a good relationship with yourself, you've drunk oil, because all the messages you receive are that you are old and no longer useful. Menopause is accompanied by a major hormonal change that affects the genitourinary system, local, genitals, and says a lot about how we experience sex. Sex is pleasure and pleasure goes beyond a small area between the legs," claims Grossmann.