Menopause.........WTF?!

[Buckterrier]

Welcome to the club Jim. Your lucky you live in the south. Try having the windows open in the car when it's friggin' 20F. Hot, cold, hot, cold, colder, hot, cold, extremely hot. Soaking wet night sweats, dry vagina. Damn near have to feel sorry for them. The ex only got weepy I was lucky.
Look on the bright side, you only have 4-7 years of it.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by legion

My MIL went pretty insane during that period. She began believing (and still does) that angels were everywhere watching her so she had to behave. Really bizarre.

My own mother bought a horse, divorced my father, and ran off with a guy who was a few months out of federal prison. The guy ended up dying of hypothermia in the back of her pickup truck as he got stinking drunk and refused to get in the cab of the truck during the rain as they were driving to Florida.

In both cases the women's personalities changed forever.

Craziest post of the year.

Originally Posted by berettafan

my god this is sobering to read.

This thread is really making me regret my conscious decision to never, ever, ever get married.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Dueller

I think it has suddenly hit my otherwise normal, wonderful wife.

To wit: last nite she was really pleasant and coquetish at the restaurant, sidled up to me and said with a twinkle in her eye "Kids are all out of town for the weekend...better go home and get some rest for when I get home..." WOOOOOHOOOOO

She arrives home and is ice cold and beyotchy...flips the Lifetime channel on and absolutely ignores me. I end up in the man cave (garage) with my new 9' wide projection screen surfing soft porn on late nite cable at 2:00 a.m.

This sucks.

Your perspective is just whacked. Nothing sucks about how you spent last night.

And the upside? You didn't even have to talk to her...

Originally Posted by Buckterrier

Look on the bright side, you only have 4-7 years of it.

This thread is vidication that i have indeed made the right choices in life with regard to women. Would it be rubbing it in to state outright that i have been openly giggling at virtually every post in this thread?

[Crowbob]

PMS, menopause, the change; call it what you want. It doesn't exist, it never has, it never will. "And don't you ever, ever say that to me again or so help me God..."

[exc911ence]

I'm starting to get gay-envy...

[Danimal16]

Do Golden Retrievers go through this?

[m21sniper]

My cat meowed once. I got rid of it.

[Dueller]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

Your perspective is just whacked. Nothing sucks about how you spent last night.

And the upside? You didn't even have to talk to her...

Only thing that concerned me was I woke up and my Johnson was orange....' guess I gotta cut down on eating Cheeto's while watchin soft porn

So I didn't talk to her much the following day....I acted unruffled but not overly comversant. She comes home last night and threw that cat on me like an 18 y.o. nymphomaniac. Didn't go to sleep until 6 a.m. Shhhheeesssshhhh. Not complaining, but.....

Guess I need to remember the sage advice of an old mentor: "WOMEN....foch 'em."

[m21sniper]

LOL, there you go man. You got to watch porn all night on a screen fit for kings, then still get your funky groove on the next night, and you STILL didn't have to talk to her.

As with most things in life, it's all a matter of perspective brother.

[HardDrive]

Huh.

Well my dad and step-mom are in their 60s, and while my dad would never say anything explicit, he has indicated that they still have a decent sex life.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Of all the things I DON'T want to hear from my parents......

[vash]

great. just great.

isnt there a milder version we fellas go thru? Men-apause?

getting old just sucks. i had an old man tell me once, "the problem isnt that life is too short, sometimes it is too long". man was 85, and alone and sad.

[FLYGEEZER]

Women have periods because they deserve it. Then years later, comes the pause, by this time in their lives they REALLY deserve it. Remember the old Irish saying lads, "their all whores....'cept me sainted mother!"

[bivenator]

Can women go through the "change" at 35, cause a whole lot of this applies to my spouse.

[Dueller]

Originally Posted by bivenator

Can women go through the "change" at 35, cause a whole lot of this applies to my spouse.

This is known as perimenopause...can happen to women in their 30's.

The big question: Real, imagined or just another excuse to be a beyotch?

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/perimenopause/DS00554

[Dueller]

Hate to resurrect this depressing thread, but I need you guys to please give some of your improoved situations, if any. I need some hope.

After some stable times bat chit crazy is setting in

[scottmandue]

My real life experience...

Wife started menopause early and still going thru it @ 46.

We still have a very active sex life.

I also work with several women who are going thru the change...

Wife and co-workers get the hot flashes and are sometimes moody (something I always mark up to just being a woman) but not insane... he11 some of the men I work with are more whack jobs that the middle age women.

For that matter some of the male posters here are more moody that my wife!

And some of my middle age male friends have not aged well... drugs, alcohol, unemployed... not always a gender thing.

YMMV

[nostatic]

Hope? Your post from '09 about being hot to trot while out at dinner, then cold and distant when getting home pretty much described my last marriage. Had nothing to do with menopause. What improved my situation? Umm, divorce, followed by a string of women who actually were interested in sex.

Current g/f of nearly 3 years is 41 and pretty balanced. Hoping that the change might be reasonable with her...

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by nostatic

followed by a string of women who actually were interested in sex....

Ding, ding, ding!

My wife is like... not boink? why would I want to deprive myself of that pleasure?

[ODDJOB UNO]

so THATS whats going on with TEAM KOTEX danica patrick. hmmmmmm



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