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Last night my best woman friend tells me she asked her husband for a divorce after 17 years. She is a very athletic woman who runs 50 mile races, so being in her early 50's she has starting the process of menopause. We use to discuss it a lot because usually women get it by the time they're 51. And many now are getting it younger and younger. I know a woman 38 is going through it now. But my friend never got it and didn't show any signs, we chalked it up to her extreme physical fitness.

I've experienced many women getting divorced in the 45-49 age group, even celebrities who have been together for years, but always around that age number. It appears to me that woman (who never forget anything)bring all the negative items from the beginning of the relationship to the forefront. The man is overwhelmed he doesn't know what's wrong, turn right, turn left, he is very My brother in law who has the patience of a saint said to me that he couldn't live with my sister anymore as she was going through menopause. I told him to hang in there it will get better and explained in a little more detail the hormonal imbalance that was occurring. He survived, because he is a saint. ALL others have succumbed to this natural event.

The part that disturbs me (and I'm a victim of this as well) is lack of knowledge about what is occurring in the body of the woman. Most of us realize that we may get moody or annoyed when we're tired or hungry, but changing the chemical balance inside our bodies is a whole new dilemma. One hundred years ago (in America) the average age of a woman was 48. Ah just in time before the crisis unfolds..now with the lifespan much longer man gets to see it all.. This is the time that man needs to use but two phrases, YES DEAR, AND I UNDERSTAND.....chances increase substantially.

I had another friend who use to carry her portable fan everywhere and used it all the time..(hot flashes)
another woman had to change her PJ's three times a night they were totally soaked......this is a major major change and many not as much a change of life as for many relationships a change to death....almost every pharmaceutical company is working on a drug to relieve and reduce the symptoms but like alzheimers the pathologies are almost unique to every body.....so once again another place where education would be most helpful.....oh by the way men also experience this hormonal change and it's called andropause....

I watched this video this morning and i thought i should share here. I am new on this site, have not made a single friend but i think it's a good place to be as there are the good, the bad and the ugly (if you know what i mean) on this network.

I realized what's on this video many years ago. I grew up in a home where i thought i was a house help, though i saw my mom and dad there but i was a punching bag to my siblings.

I grew up and became stubborn, i put a shield around myself because it was the only way to survive. I listen to nobody, not my father, not my mother, i mean no one.

One day, i started realizing my mistakes and i decided to make peace with my father, two weeks after, a man i thought was very strong and healthy, passed on. I was devastated, i was down, broken, frustrated, any word you know that means DEAD ALIVE.

Though i didn't cry, but i realized it was my turn to take over and pick up where my father left off. I never knew what was responsibilities, i couldn't even look at my mother and siblings screaming on the floor.

Anyways, enough of that, watch the video and i hope you learn something.




Ehi Daniel Ekhator

I socialize with a group of octo---nonagenarians here at Mickie D's, where I get the endless java for a buck, and the decent wifi. They have a grand time with themselves, and I have learned a good deal just listening. Topic number one is their medical care/conditions. But in this New England town, where many, exept perhaps for military service, have rarely ventured 100km away, a lot of talk is about their and others' families. Some, many, have been here since our revolution, or earlier. Do you know tall Mary Lou? Is she a Seeker, or a Reynold? No she is a Pendleton, but married a Lynch. Our parents are first generation here, and we have lost touch with folks in the old country, so my elder pals' experiences are so foreign to me, but quaintly of great interest. Aa-V.

Can a first cousin, once removed, be attached again? If so, I want to exhume his body. Just to tell him about the scandalous way in which his daughter and her married-on family left my house after I had to reprimand them (the twin brothers) for settling an argument in my front garden during the early hours of the morning. But I don’t feel like talking about them now.

My father phoned very early this morning to inform me that he‘s not feeling well and won’t be having lunch with us, so I won’t be going either. I stayed in bed until a short while ago. And while I was in bed, my guests left without a thank you or a good bye. Now they are gone and I have to continue living next to my neighbors… but I said I don’t want to talk about them.

Anyway, my father skipped lunch two weeks ago as well and when I called on him that afternoon he was not in. His neighbor apparently knew something I did not know; for he made a discreet phone call, and me old man arrived some ten minutes later. And he could not wait for me to depart. I think he’s got a new girlfriend.

This leaves me with a dilemma. What do I eat today? I have been emptying my freezer because I’m going to shoot my yearly kudu shortly. I’ll be leaving on Thursday but I won’t be away for long, I normally go for two weeks, but I have a medical check-up scheduled for the 7th. Maybe I can have it postponed for a few days.

I’m not fond of chicken and I don’t eat burgers, so KFC and McDonald are out. I depleted my steaks last night and only have a few pork chops left in the freezer. Not exactly my favorite food, but they are quick to prepare. I’m going to try my new stick free pan today. There should be some salads left over from last night.

At least my far-off cousin makes a decent potato salad... Damn it, man! How many time must I say that I don't want to talk about them.


I wish you all a grand Sunday. Yea, you too!

Long time i and Teddy havent been here. We miss u our friends. We are ok. And we have been in two years of mariage just some days ago, and ja dont worry he is still happy and in good state lol. We wish u guys a happy new year and of course more luckiness for friends still single to find out right mates.

Jenny & Teddy

Caught the Royal wedding this AM, and while hardly a royalist, enjoyed the show, and seeing this nice socially active couple. But I was saddened to see that the bride had only one member of her family in attendance, namely mom. Gossip media bring up alleged big family issues on dad's side. Of course, historically, and present day, hard to beat the British Royals for treetop family dysfunction, with some notable exceptions. They should clone the Queen Mother. Aa-V.

As I recall long ago I treated my uncle and grandfather to a fishing trip for walleye in Wisconsin one spring and of course it was a perfect day cloudy and nearly cold so fishing wasn't so great and as I steered the boat to shore I told uncle a polite reminder to wait till I pulled the boat on shore grandfather was off first being on the bow me in the middle and uncle at the end so grand got off then I walked to the bow to jump off and pull the boat on shore more as I grabbed the bow to pull it that's lol when my uncle started to stand up and done a flip in deep cold as he** water of course it caught me off guard like WTH then I hear Gramps laughing and a few shore fisherman then of course I did then as uncle reaches shore soaking wet he says boy is that water cold,that did it we all laughed even more and more for the next five minutes by then poor uncle was getting mad and we all started laughing all over again..lol

I must have been 12 or 13 years old when my father was pushing us along to get ready and go out. What was I doing? Probably watching TV.
He said "Get your pants, shoes and socks on"
I did EXACTLY what he said.
That's when I got a whoopin'

This could all have been avoided if he had told me to put on my pants, socks and shoes.

Ruby...




I have a niece named Crystal and her daughter is Diamond.