Have menopausal symptoms severely challenged your relationship?

I have not been through menopause, but my question to you is, have you discussed this with your husband? Your insecurities? Maybe he understands you are going through a hard time, and is not thinking of the marriage breaking for one second. Maybe you both can come up with a solution to make this less stressful on your marriage. It is likely it is only temporary as your hormones shift, and eventually your emotions will settle down once you are through the worst of the process.

He understands what I’m going through and tries to be supportive but I know it’s stressing him out badly and it makes me feel guilty.
I think it’s the guilt feelings that are making it worse.

Hopefully we will both get through this without too much damage to our marriage.
Thank you for your response JLeslie.

@Natnee I really do empathasize. I have been through health problems during my marriage that have affected our sex life and relationship and the guilt I have weighs on me heavily. I feel my loss with how the health problem affect me emotionally and physically, I feel cheated, plus dwell on how my health problems have cheated him from the wife I feel he should have.

Hopefully you will get some more answers that are of more help directly relating to your concerns.

Welcome to fluther by the way.

There were some difficult moments for us when my wife went through it but we both understood what was happening, made allowances and are able to look back and laugh now.
Sometimes she seemed like a person possessed; I do not know how many times I had to say “Let me talk to ‘Wendy’ now!”. It was our own little code to let her know it was time to sit back, relax and let it go.

I’m glad you and your wife were able to get through it.
I can’t wait for this stage of life to be over, although I know it will go on for some years yet. Scary!
I had to laugh when you say she sometimes seemed like a person possessed.
It’s exactly how I feel at times.

Thank you for your answer rojo! :0)

Her is what happened to my friend and co-Deputy U.S. Marshal.

He and his wife had been married a long time. His wife began her menopausal time in life and she was more than he could handle, by being out of control and an entirely different person than the lady he married. He did not understand her change of life cycle and soon they were divorced.

Shortly after their divorce, his ex wife died.

He has said to me on many occasions, that he should have never divorced his wife. That, he should have been more understanding. He missed his wife so much.

Within a year, my friend was killed in an auto accident and now I miss both of them.

Men should read about menopause and women. Its not a fun ordeal for the women and men need to be more understanding.