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Wanting to be alone all the time and irritated - perimenopause??

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Orchidsunlight · 16/01/2025 18:24

Can anyone relate, I am late 40's and recently apart from being irritated a lot i find i just crave to be alone, is this normal? I have a house full of husband and 20 somethings and i feel like screaming , people everywhere, making noise, making all sorts of food in the kitchen, everyone asking me to remind them of things etc, I just want to be alone and sit with a glass of wine and a book, or something on tv i like. My real dream is to live alone in a cottage by the sea, just me my books, my candles, a nice bottle of wine in the fridge, doing what I like, when I like.
Is this normal as i feel quite fed up lately with people around me all the time at home...

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JunglistRaver · 27/01/2025 09:30

This is 100% me at the moment; I thought it was trying to recover from cptsd but it could be a big old dollop of peri/meno, or just me!

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