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[quote=Anonymous]Additional stressors, no matter what they are, will contribute to the breakup of a marriage.

Peri and menopause have been tough on me, but I am doing the best I can. My DH just thinks I’m complaining.

For example, I’m starting to need to go to sleep earlier… like 930 or 10 instead of 11 or 1130. This angers him. He wants me up with the kids and also up to spend time with him. It bothers me because when the kids were little, I was doing the early mornings. Now, I need him to do the late nights. He’s not giving me the same grace now that it’s in reverse.

I do have the menopause brain fog, I forget things sometimes and I never did before. I can’t hold everything together as seamlessly for our family as I used to. I am working on it though. I am on HRT, and attempting to get the right dose, but it takes a long time. Again, no grace here on his part. He is aging too, and cannot do everything he used to, but just expects that to be fine with everyone.

It turns out that I am the one with the higher sex drive right now, and he makes little effort to please me. Again, when the kids were younger, and I was all tapped out, but he wanted sex, I did my best to make sure he was happy. Again, this favor is not returned.

He is having his own midlife crisis… No affair or anything like that, but he is angry and edgy all the time. Instead of apologizing, he has this mentality where he’s entitled to be angry. That’s on him.

I’ll stay for the next couple years until the kids go to college, but that actually doesn’t seem very far away at this point. Not saying I’ll definitely leave him, but I certainly think about it. Would it be a result of perimenopause, aging, or just him generally becoming an entitled, grumpy old man? [/quote]

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