Can We Relate ? Husbands & Menopause

Hello, friends. This story is intended to be all in fun. I hope if nothing else this makes you laugh because we all know laughter is the best medicine.

Well, about a year ago my husband retired, and at the same time my hormones just happened to flare up, big time. This is not a good combination. It's like putting a bottle of nitro with a stick of dynamite in a bucket and dropping a lit match on it.

Men are just so irritating at times, especially when they notice you're a bit grumpy, and they say, "It must be your hormones, honey." Not a smart thing to say! Are we not already hot enough? I'm sweating bullets here, and he just keeps putting more logs on the fire. Gotta love em, but at the same time you want to send them fishing in a boat with a nice leaky hole in the bottom or a half empty gas tank so they can't possibly make it home for the next few days, preferably weeks. Although I may be a bit irritable, I am not completely heartless. I would send them a loaf of bread, some peanut butter, and a book on hormones. Oops, I forgot to send a jug of water. Well, if he calls on his cell phone that I forgot to charge up, I'll just tell him the thirst is all in his mind, and it's not really 100 degrees outside.

Our poor husbands, they catch all kinds of heck because of our hormones; I do believe they try. You know, ladies, we need to have a class for our menfolk on how to handle wives cautiously and with great understanding during this trying time. This would be nice. We must take a stand for our ever-fluctuating hormones. This is sooo not fair. Women have to not only go through PMS, childbirth, and last, but certainly not least, menopause too.

Man, oh man, guys have it so easy. The only thing they go through is the so called mid-life crisis. We all know what that's supposed to mean. Now, if these guys want to reach the ripe old age of 99, the only mid-life crisis they had better be experiencing is that we are going through menopause, and it is their duty to make our scary little mood swings all better and to faithfully keep the thermostat on 40. Hey, our vows did include the "for better or worse" clause, thank goodness! We might need to add richer or poorer on the thermostat issue.

OK, so I admit I get a little bitter now and then. The things men say... Please don't get me wrong I am a happily married woman for 23 years now. A little humor never hurt anyone, well, unless we're hormonal. Ha - ha

May God bless you ladies & your families.