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Honey, you're a woman! Don't apologize for that! This is what we go through. Hubby needs to accept it, just like all our hubbies do. He should talk to Don. Don would tell him stories about what he's had to put up with me that would make your hubby's toes curl.

It's called hormones. One moment, you're wired, the next you're a quart low.

Let me tell you a little story.

When I was very young, they discovered I had some kind of very strange genetic defect (turns out it's very rare, but I wasn't diagnosed until I was 38!). Anyway, the doctor didn't know what to do with me, so they put me on hormone replacement therapy. I remember the reaction that I had QUITE WELL! I wanted to be all alone, away from everyone, to crawl into a hole and never come out. Then, when anyone was around me, such as a friend, I didn't want them to leave, and I'd cling to them and beg them to stay with me. It was the oddest thing I've ever experienced.

All it was -- was hormones. I had to take those damn things all my life, and, while the reaction I had from it leveled off a bit, when I had my surgery in 1983, the hormonal situation totally went out of control. I was crying incessantly, and for no reason. At one point I almost committed suicide; it just looked inviting to me, like something I really wanted to do.

Hubby loves you for YOU -- that includes those wild and wacky hormones. So he'll learn to accept you and your low moods as well as the high.

Do you really think Hubby would prefer a boring wife? Just give hubby a squeeze and a big, juicy kiss, and tell him to "hang on; it's gonna be a ROUGH ride!"

Bev

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