Most men do not understand, or have any idea of what a woman goes through when menopause sets in.
Even some women are not aware of what is happening to them.
My wife felt at first like she was losing her mind.
The anxiety that this "change of life" causes can be very real and devastating to some women.
For most women this starts about the age of forty, but for some it can start even earlier.
My sister was thirty-six and a friend of the family was fifty-four when they entered menopause.
So it does vary.
My wife was mid forties when she started noticing her mood changes, hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia and vaginal dryness.
In the family circle, when my wife is having a bad day, everyone is affected.
Sometimes she would become so angry that she would literally scream at us.
Then there were times when she would start crying for no reason at all.
On good days she loved us; however, on bad days she couldn't stand the sight of us.
Any little incident would quickly be blown out of proportion.
The kids and I would do everything we could to make her life easier.
We have been together over forty years, and it's rough when you become the target of all her anger and frustration.
One day we were in the supermarket when we both noticed a women standing with the freezer door opened fanning herself with a box of frozen food.
She looked at me and said I know exactly how she feels.