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To ask if perimenopause is making me hate my husbanc

187 replies

Everythingnotsavedwillbelost · 07/10/2019 20:52

kind of light hearted but not

I am 46 and I can barely stand to be in the same room as him. Everything he does irritates the total fuck out of me and I never want to have sex with him again 😬

I have noticed he makes this weird clicking noise when he speaks and it makes me want to throw things 😬

We’ve been together 20 years but if this is perimenopause, I don’t think i can stand it as everything he does annoys me 🙈

Aibu? I feel a bit unhinged

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Choclips · 07/10/2019 23:11

Omg. Me too. It's like every eating sound from him is heightened. I want to scream at him, are you doing that on purpose. He has a sniff noise. I'm the car, I have to turn up the radio, open my window to stick my left ear out , into the wind ,
to block the fucking sniff noise.
Ive considered l.t.b - only I know in reality that I'm being a bit hasty!

30to50FeralHogs · 07/10/2019 23:16

Hormones - throwing the truth into sharp relief

That’s what I always say about PMT, it doesn’t mean I’m upset about totally pointless things, but that I’m less tolerant of the things I’d normally try and let go. Eg all month he’s leaving his crap all over the place, most of the time I just tut and pick it up or passive aggressively ask “do you need this or can it go in the bin?!” When I have PMT I’ll be “FFS why can’t he put his fucking rubbish in the bin!!!” And then strop about shouting about why am I the only person who ever tidies anything away.

CleverLoginName · 07/10/2019 23:20

I feel so much better after reading all your comments. Pleased I'm not alone. Don't want to take HRT as have a higher risk of breast cancer due to my mum having it. So just going to have to front it out and hope it passes before I ask for a divorce. I'm on the pill you take every day so haven't had a period in five years so no idea what state that's in but when I didn't take that type of pill, before, my periods lasted about an hour.

DuMondeB · 07/10/2019 23:30

Will the current HRT supply chain issues cause a spike in the divorce rate? 😂

Miranda15110 · 07/10/2019 23:45

Yep that's me too. HRT is helping though Smile

romany4 · 07/10/2019 23:48

I'm nearly 48 and the same.
DH fucks me off so much. And then when I'm getting really cross, he just sighs and rolls his eyes at me. Which he deserves to be decapitated for as far as I am concerned.

Threatened to divorce him tonight because he didn't pick me up from my Pilates class and I had to walk a mile home in the dark. (Rural village in Yorkshire) Uphill too. Bastard....

HelC46 · 07/10/2019 23:49

OMG I am like the too. Not been to the doctor yet as it is tolerable and feel I should wait till I am a complete basket case before I go. I get rage from nowhere over nothing. Insomnia, periods from hell, random ones, missed ones. My joints have started going stiff, not sure if that is perimenopause or if I have actually done myself an injury. Very annoyed by depictions of over 50s on TV. I am not even 50 and it's peeing me off. Just edging closer. On the plus side with the insomnia have got through some good box sets, every cloud and all that.

JaneJeffer · 08/10/2019 00:07

I think the real question should be why do men get so annoying at this age? Huffing and puffing, chewing loudly, putting on weight so that when they turn over in bed they wake you up, showing you stupid videos on their phone that you have no interest in, etc. They're the ones who need medication!

HattieBugatti · 08/10/2019 00:21

OMG I know this sounds super cheesy, but I have found my people too! (Mid 50s here...) last period 3 years ago... So well into menopause.

My DH gets on my last bloody nerve SO much some days. Some days he doesn't, and we have some good days and a good laugh, and we have stuff in common, but he pisses me off and annoys me at least a third of the waking hours we are together.

I work largely from home, and he has cut his hours down to just 3 ten-hour night shifts in a row, (with 4 days in a row off!) and he is at home SO MUCH that it makes my blood boil! The kids have left home, and he seems to want to be at home all the time, and wants me to go everywhere with him, and chats incessantly when we are at home together!!!

Funnily enough, he wasn't so keen to be at home all the time when the kids were little/younger/living at home! Hmm

The way he eats irks me, the way chucks out a long massive BELCH after a fizzy drink makes me feel stabby, the way he follows me from room to room annoys me, the way he can't go two fucking minutes without chatting shit about fuckall, (or just stuff I am not interested in) pisses me off, and his taking over the TV and putting crap on from the 1970s and 1980s fucks me off too!

Thank GOD I have the internet/mumsnet, and bloody netflix and catch up on demand on my laptop. I would go utterly nuts if I didn't have that, and I had to just tolerate the shit he wants to watch, and listen to him prattling on about fuck knows what some days!!! Seriously, he puts some wanky 70s sitcom on (and I try and watch something on netflix with my headphones on,) and he still tries to cunting talk to me. ARGH!! Angry

We have had separate bedrooms for 10 years (I could not sleep coz of his snoring and got used to it and would never go back,) and we haven't had sex in 8 or 9 years (since our mid 40s...) He went off it first, and then I caught up about half a year later, and I never want it again, and don't miss it even slightly.

He has suggested it a couple of times about 5 years ago, but I just flatly said 'nope, I am done with sex. Not for me again, ever.' He doesn't seem too bothered, and we are affectionate and get on OK in general, but yep, like many women on here, I feel my heart sink when I think I am getting a cosy morning to myself and he fucking gets up. I can hear him opening his bedroom door and I think 'FUCK THE FUCK OFF! Give me just a couple of bastard HOURS to myself PLEASE!!!'

I also fantasise about him leaving so I can just be on my own, do what I want, when I want, and not have him trailing around after me like a fucking shadow!

Oh, and I dislike going out to the shops with him too....

He either has a snappy and arsey attitude with shop assistants and waitresses etc, and is rude if people get in his way, or are walking slow!

OR .....

he tries to be funny and jovial with every fucking female he encounters. It makes me cringe because I know these women have to tolerate dozens of ludicrous middle aged (and old) men trying to be funny, ALL DAY. He thinks he is clever, funny, and unique. They think he is a cunt. So do I.

AND he gives me an evil glare if I share banter with a man (and it is very rare I do!) Hmm

Ahhhh, that felt good! Smile

I have felt like this about DH for about 10 years by the way! Pretty much since our two kids left home. Probably just didn't notice it when they were at home as I was busy with them....

userxx · 08/10/2019 00:28

They think he is a cunt. So do I.

Shouldn't laugh but I am. Brilliant.

Everythingnotsavedwillbelost · 08/10/2019 06:27

Oh god I am so glad it’s not just me!! I still get regular periods but I am definitely changing- I am so tired too and feel lazy, can’t be bothered to exercise. Oh, and I feel like I hate my work colleagues aswell - it’s not good....🙈

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Girasole02 · 08/10/2019 06:37

Thanks for this thread. Was starting to think it's just me.

Kahlua4me · 08/10/2019 06:38

It’s good to know that I am not alone. I feel just the same and also have many other peri menopausal symptoms which don’t help my mood and tolerance!

My aunt, who is now in her 80s, told me that she planned to leave my uncle almost daily through her menopause! Luckily she didn’t and they were happily married for another 20 or so years afterwards.

Just hang on as these feelings will pass...

ShirleyB50 · 08/10/2019 06:49

@HattieBugatti Grin Grin let those filters off!!

Weirdly here it is also the apple crunching, adding in the little exclamation of fake surprise when entering a room, and the lying around all day gazing at the computer that gets on my tits.

I'm age 55 - definitely menopausal - on meds for another chronic health condition so reluctant to add in HRT.

Might try the Lamberts Fema45+ that someone recommended.....

Really222 · 08/10/2019 06:57

I am divorced and 50, but actually, it’s pretty lonely. If I could have ex back - if he changed some of his behaviour, which was emotionally abusive (he never will) - I would.

I enjoy not walking on eggshells, and have my teens who take up time and energy, but still I would so much rather ex had been kinder and honest, and was still here.

Stoic123 · 08/10/2019 07:01

Oh yes- luckily DP and I live separately or I’d have a new patio by now.

HRT has helped massively- went on it when joints got so stiff I struggled to open a jar. Older friends are coming out the other side and are just glowing!

Trewser · 08/10/2019 07:04

Peri-menopause can make you hate puppies Grin

It can. Hrt has been brilliant for my moods. I feel nervous about taking it though.

Trewser · 08/10/2019 07:09

Having read some of these, I have rethought HRT and am bloody glad I am taking it. I couldn't live like some of you do Shock

Thehagonthehill · 08/10/2019 07:41

Hrt makes you sane again.

To ask if perimenopause is making me hate my husbanc
Jog22 · 08/10/2019 08:03

Thank you. Not just me then - the popping noise when he inhales a fag, the incessant playing of music, the sighing, god the sighing as if he's finished a 16 hour back-breaking bridge-building shift when he's actually just sat a computer, the nine hour sleeps he gets, his fucking absurd levels of self-confidence. I'm 48 and only just starting perimenopause. I'm getting periods more frequently. Jeeze though, would rather the blood than the mental.

Trooperslaneagain · 08/10/2019 08:13

I'm 46 and the doc keeps fobbing me off, telling me I'm too young.

My DM had a full hysterectomy at 42........ Back next week for new bloods and a fight I think!

Last year I was throwing camping chairs in rage. I was the talk of the campsite Blush. Totally mortified.

peppersaunt · 08/10/2019 08:19

Hello my lovely people! I highly recommend separate bedrooms for the incessant snoring if you don’t wish to be detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure (after HRT I didn’t elbow him sharply in the ribs any more but the snoring still contributed to hormonal insomnia)

Elodie2019 · 08/10/2019 08:20

Me. I can't tolerate anyone.

NearlyGranny · 08/10/2019 08:21

Menopause was a revelation. The hormones wind down and you are looking at your life partner without the help of their magic pink lenses.

What you are seeing is what was there all along, just paunchier and making less effort. The rage will fade and you are left wonderfully clear-eyed and free to speak your mind in ways that can disconcert others.

My DH finds me far less tolerant and more honest but he has adjusted well to the new normal and respects the boundaries. The people pleasing urge vanishes, the sexual urges come back and it's lovely not worrying about contraception etc.

Street harassment mysteriously disappears and you find you can talk to anyone and everyone without your motives or profession being misconstrued.

Best of all, for a swimmer like me, is the recapture of the childhood freedom of not counting where I am in the month. Now if only I could still climb trees and take my top off on hot days like I did when I was nine....

Amazonion · 08/10/2019 08:36

They think he’s a cunt. So do I. GrinGrinGrin Brilliant.

I am lucky enough to live in glorious solitude which IMO is the best thing for this time of life. Now I only have to worry about hating my work clients, friends and family I don’t live with. Interestingly it’s the men I have lost tolerance for.. When I tried to ask my mother about her experience of menopause she told me it wasn’t as bad for her as it was for Margaret Howell who ‘took a knife to her husband’ I can see why tbf.

I’ve been taking these which seem to be helping. Either that or I’m having a lull.

www.vitabiotics.com/menopace/calcium

When I tried to talk to my GP about my symptoms he directed me to ‘menopause matters’ website Hmm