Is this menopause or what?
Posted By: mt at 51 on 2007-10-29
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I got married last December and moved from the south to California with husband, stayed for 5 months and moved to Oklahoma where he will be pastoring a church. All my family is back south. My doctor told me I was menopausal back in January of this year, but still having periods off and on and now spotting. I am so super sensitive, mood swings, crying spells, feeling neglected, easily offended, missing the closeness of my family back home, my kids and grandkids. I love my husband and he is good to me, although does get on my nerves a lot lately and we have had some major clashes, and I'm feeling like the "honey" is gone out of the moonr. I have been contemplating just leaving him and going back to my home in the south. But for fear of humiliation, shame and embarrassment of what the hometown folks and church folks will say, not to mention "I don't believe in divorce." One part of me is saying "this will pass as it is just the menopause I am going throug, but other side is saying "I'd be better off by myself.' Anyone have gone through natural menopause and went through changes such as mine, or is this a natural occurrence for someone going through such life-changing events within the past 9 months, marriage, moved 2 different times to differing parts of the US, plus married to a minister, plus going through menopause.    
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