How do women manage to be happy when they spend 1/4 of their lives in pain?

[Anonymous]

[_Maya_]

Okay so I am guessing that you are referring to periods. That is a bad way to do the math though because we don't go our whole life having periods. Also, the pain or discomfort for a lot of us doesn't last a whole week. My period usually doesn't last 7 days and really only two of those days suck. The first and second day I can have discomfort but nothing a heating pad and some otc meds can't help with. So I don't really think you can say 25% of our life is pain. It is much less than that assuming periods is what you are referring to.

[Asker]

Between that pms, pregnancy, and other female struggles I'm guessing 1/4

[_Maya_]

You are working under the assumption all girls get pregnant. I have no idea what you mean by other female struggles that cause pain.

[Asker]

Most women will get pregnant and some point and some will do it multiple times. Then there's menopause and the aches and pains I hear several women complain about

[noemiii]

My period is painless so not sure what pain you’re referring to, there’s plenty of medication for cramps these days. And for the most part the only pain of pregnancy is childbirth the rest is just a high level of discomfort. Not to mention, most women don’t get pregnant until their mid to late 20’s and stop at their late 30’s.. You really think women spend 1/4 of their lives experiencing these things? Lol. What is this 1940?

[Simslover92]

It's not every period. Some periods there is no pain at all.

[Agape93]

Because we don't have a choice other than just being in misery.

[Monalisa77]

Im not n im in pain 24/7