Does Going Through Menopause Affect How You Deal With His Cheating?

I don't know what menopause or that peri menopause has to do with anything, maybe nothing at all but when I found out the first time that my husband was cheating, I went totally crazy. At first, I didn't want to believe what I was hearing. I shunned talk about him and what he was seen doing. But after I thought about it, I wanted to find out, and boy did I find out. I was suffering through a bad time in my life, going through a very early menopausal period in life. I look back at it now, and wonder what on earth I was thinking and doing at that time in my life. I found out rather badly, as I have stated in earlier postings, and instead of staying around to confront him, I went home and packed everything I could and just flat took off. I left my own home. Why did I do that so quickly? I wonder if suffering with menopause had anything to do with my actions. I did, of course, come back about 9-10 months later, re-united with him, hoping to work things out, and of course after a couple years of trying, things failed miserably, but I was in a much better frame of mind then. Does going through changes in life affect the way you see and do things in your life?

2 comments:

Survived said...

I think peri-menopause/menopause has a lot to do with how you cope with things. The shock of my H's affair threw me into a lot of health problems, including peri, and it has not been nice! I, too, felt as if I was going crazy. Apparently, this is perfectly normal in peri, even without the added stress of infidelity to cope with. My mind is now settling down, I think partly due to time passing (it's two years since the A), and partly the HRT I've recently had to start (the hot flushes were driving me to distraction!).

Take care.

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