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To ask if perimenopause is making me hate my husbanc

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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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Passthebubbly · 08/10/2019 09:03

Wow this all hits home. I am 44 and have been tracking my cycles as they have become shorter. Now every 23 days as oppose to my normal 28. Could this be the start of pre menepause?

Mummaofmytribe · 08/10/2019 10:59

My GP insisted I wasn't in perimenopause because I still have a regular cycle.
The intense moods, intense actually too mild a word, the new knife like pain at mid cycle and period, the aching joints, the brain fog, the insomnia,memory problems etc etc. All to be endured apparently.
I went to a private gynaecologist. Cost a fortune.
Thanks to her I'm having a full hysterectomy and going straight on HRT patches.
He also glossed over my concerns that my mother had died of ovarian cancer.
I think the gynaecologist may be about to save my sanity and my marriage.
She actually listened.
Best money I ever spent.

HattieBugatti · 08/10/2019 11:44

I am so relieved that posters laughed (and found it funny,) when I said 'they think he's a cunt - so do I' (when talking about shop assistants he always tries to be jovial with.) Blush

I honestly thought I would be lambasted LOL. Grin

I do hope I DO start to get more tolerance for him, because occasionally I get this 'hurt-little-puppy' look if I am snappy, and I do actually feel a bit bad. Deep down I do love him, and attack (verbally) anyone who upsets him, and when he is genuinely ill, I am there for him. But he has soooo many ailments (that are looked at but never found/proven, and turn out to be all in his head,) that I lose patience.

I didn't mention this on my LONG post, (as it was long enough already,) but since my DH hit his 50s four or five years ago, he moans incessantly about his health, and he has a new ailment every few weeks. His back hurts, his heart is 'fluttering oddly,' and he thinks he will have a heart attack soon, he sees stuff in front of his eyes and thinks he is about to lose his sight, he has a bad headache and thinks it's a tumour, his liver hurts, (WFT? Confused ) his shoulder is killing him, he feels like his hip is about to go,' he is struggling to breath so must have emphysema.. the list goes on.

In addition, he always wants me to go to the appointments with him, and I struggle to get out of it because I work mostly from home, so he knows I can go. His latest one is that his coccyx hurts at the base of his spine and he has made an appointment to see the doc next week on Monday morning ...

I am NOT going with him. I will develop a really bad headache. I know I need to be more forceful, but if I refuse to go, he probably won't go and then I will feel pretty bad if he DOES have a real problem. It will be that one time I don't go that it will be genuine! Arghhh!!! He has had about 25 visits to the doctors, various clinics, hospitals, different specialists, and the nurse in the last 4 or 5 years, and I am not kidding.

Only one small thing was found to be wrong, and that was remedied within a few weeks (earlier this year.) What annoys me as much as trailing around the county to various appointment (of HIS) is the money it must be costing the NHS! His hypochondria is a drain on the NHS, and I cannot fathom why he has not been pulled up on it by someone!

Oh and he also moans a lot about loads more stuff too... like the government, the weather, other drivers, his job, rowdy youths, his colleagues, and just about anything he can moan about. And when he goes on a rant, he says the SAME thing every time. He has a certain 'stock' sentence that he says EVERY TIME, for any one of a dozen different subjects.

Like for example, he will say 'you know what we need for these rowdy youths??' And I KNOW he is going to say 'bring back National service!' I have started to say it first, and he just looks perplexed and goes quiet. 'Hmmmm,' I say, 'I wonder how I knew you were going to say that?!' (Because he has said it 50 times before!!!)

He has so many irritating habits that I don't know how or why I have stayed sometimes. I am probably just as bad (in his eyes) in my own way though (although he never says anything.) Also, I think the thought of being alone - indefinitely - is worse than being with DH.

JaneJeffer · 08/10/2019 11:50

I honestly thought I would be lambasted
Don't worry there's still plenty of time for the professionally offended to come along Grin

MorrisZapp · 08/10/2019 11:51
  1. Buy lottery tickets on the regular so I can buy the fucker out. But that would mean sleeping in a house with no other adult which would be scary. It's the way he stands in the kitchen, then hovers near the bathroom.

Omg just FUCK OFF would you.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 08/10/2019 11:53

Just because you're perimenopausal doesn't mean your DH isn't a twat.Grin

I had a bullying manager during mine. I did not cope well. I still maintain she was a bully, I just had heightened sensitivity to it and didn't let things go that I probably should have.

Don't worry, it'll pass soon enough and you won't care again!

HattieBugatti · 08/10/2019 11:54

@JaneJeffer

Don't worry there's still plenty of time for the professionally offended to come along. Grin

Bah ha ha Grin 😂

noodlenosefraggle · 08/10/2019 11:55

Oh thank God for this thread! I've been seriously thinking about selling the house and buying my own flat! I'm 46.

StartupRepair · 08/10/2019 11:56

There's a book called the Female Brain which basically says that the nurturing and peace keeping hormones drop away and we see what we are really lumped with.

HattieBugatti · 08/10/2019 11:58

@MorrisZapp

I also hate it how my DH trails around after me and is standing outside the bathroom (waiting for me to come out when I have had a shower...)

It scares the shit out of me, him just standing opposite the door like a fucking ghostly stalker. I say 'what the fuck?! What are you doing?' He says 'I need the loo.' I say 'I could have been another fucking half hour in there, were you just going to wait, just standing there like a fucking freak?!' Hmm

He just walks past me and closes the door.

Cunt.

Grin
Jog22 · 08/10/2019 11:58

The standing in the way in between rooms on his phone yes. Fucking sit down somewhere. And the pillows, he has a stinky head - he showers everyday - so i don't know how but his pillow is stinky and when I get up in the morning he will move over to turn the radio on and be on my pillows. Fuck off my pillows with your stinky head. And do they get training somewhere to perfect the kicked-puppy stare? Honestly you're 56 man not 8. Get a grip.

BigSandyBalls2015 · 08/10/2019 11:59

Ahh it’s not only me then, thank god. I used to be the most laid back easy going sort, how that has changed! I think I’m scaring DH, he didn’t sign up for this ... I do feel a bit sorry for these fellas.

HattieBugatti · 08/10/2019 12:01

@StartupRepair

There's a book called the Female Brain which basically says that the nurturing and peace keeping hormones drop away and we see what we are really lumped with.

OMG is that true? That would explain a lot!

Right now, the fucking freak is sitting there, licking every bit of fucktwatting cunting YOGURT off his bastard Muller fruit fucking corner..... Hmm

About 15 to 20 LICKS EVERY FUCKING TIME he has a Muller fruit corner!

Urge to kill rising..... Angry 🤬

HattieBugatti · 08/10/2019 12:02

That should be 'he is licking every bit of fucktwatting cunting YOGURT off his bastard Muller fruit fucking corner LID!'

HattieBugatti · 08/10/2019 12:05

Oh and standing in the doorway when I am rushing to the loo for a piss or a poo, and he blocks the door and says 'HUG!!!!' and won't let me pass until I HUG him!

WTAF? Confused

Grannybags · 08/10/2019 12:11

@Jog22 - are you me?! Either than or you are married to my DH identical twin brother.

I’m so pleased to read all these comments - if I’m going bonkers at least I’ll have company.
And it doesn’t help that my sainted mother claims she got through the menopause with only evening primrose oil to help. ( I clearly remember her throwing all her clothes in the boot of the car and driving off when I was about 15 but there’s no point mentioning that)

SpamChaudFroid · 08/10/2019 12:22

I thought I was going mad when it first began. I'm currently jumping through the many hoops to obtain a script for HRT. Bet I'd get it quicker if I had a penis.

I've just ordered the Lamberts mentioned upthread.

HepzibahGreen · 08/10/2019 12:25

I live with only males. They all annoy me.
My husband plays online golf on his tablet. I want to shove it sideways up his arse. When I met him he used to read books. OK, when he met me I was 2 stone lighter and quite a nice person but THEY have done this to me. Them.

HepzibahGreen · 08/10/2019 12:25

I'm already on hrt. Honestly, it's them.

Choclips · 08/10/2019 12:44

Grannybags- my mother too! Actually she never went through the change. Neither did my sister's....
I have to contain myself not to scream in their faces, "Oh did you not ? So you were just fucking horrible and fucking close to being sectioned for nothing then- you must be better than me, wahhhhhhh!!!'
One sister went through two relationships during the change. I can remember her loosing the plot in an argument so bad, it was like a scene from EastEnders.
.So the people I should be able to learn from, count on, nothing. Dh is supportive , let's face it , I'm going to have to learn to love his fucking sniff habit arnt I because I can't fucking stand anyone much of late.

snozzlemaid · 08/10/2019 12:45

My dp suddenly seems incapable of doing anyone his own. Whilst I crave my solitude he's wants to do everything together!
The pp who said the constant playing of music. Yes, this. He can't be in a room with no noise. And he plays the same music he's been listening to for the last 10-15 years! I want to listen to something new fgs.
He switches the tv on out of habit every time he's comes into the lounge. Then sits down looking at his phone. Makes my anger go through the roof. Don't turn the fucking telly on if no one's watching it, I was enjoying the peace and quiet.

thesuninsagittarius · 08/10/2019 12:48

I'm 52, and more or less out the other side now, apart from the very occasional hot flush. I do remember feeling the way you all do in my forties, it was hellacious! A PP is right about the nurturing and giving a fuck hormones winding down. I also realised I was seeing him clearly and we divorced (he was an abusive twat) I honestly couldn't give a fuck about men or what they want now. My children are adults, I don't have to consider anyone else, can make my own choices etc. Yes, sometimes life is a bit lonely, but I never want to share my space with a man again. Also like several PP's, I recommend supplements, magnesium, calcium, sage, B complex. I couldn't have HRT as have a strong family history of endometrial cancer, but the supplements definitely helped.
I feel for you all, it's fucking awful while it's going on, but when you get to the other side life will be calmer. It's lovely not having the roller-coaster of PMT mood swings. Those of you with lovely husbands will gradually stop feeling like you want to kill him...maybe :-)
I can't tell you all how good it feels to not give a fuck any longer, it's a whole new lease of life!

Delatron · 08/10/2019 12:49

Ah to be fair I do remember my mum having a terrible time and she doesn’t deny it. She went through an early menopause at 40, sent to see the doctor and I remember her being in tears as he just dismissed her.
My Dad said years later it was awful as she didn’t want him anywhere near her. They’re still together though.

Although I’m 43 and still having periods I am feeling the rage for DH. Private gynaecologist sounds a good idea. Can’t have HRT die to breast cancer so this worries me. My mum did have HRT and it was life changing for her.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 08/10/2019 13:09

I don't take HRT because I'd rather kill someone and be imprisoned for it than have periods again. I've managed.

Ladies, there is a golden age between your menopausal symptoms stopping and your knees and other joints giving out. Don't waste it!Grin

Mistlewoeandwhine · 08/10/2019 13:20

Really feeling this thread. Thanks x