I Have Gone Through Menopause

Thanks lonesurvivor - the older I get the more I am sure that most problems are not gender ba<x>sed, but human being ba<x>sed. You are a victim twice of the menopause - but you were not the refuser. I went through it with my first wife, early, undiagnosed, extended menopause, and after the breakup, a few years' bliss, and I was in it again.

Which does not deal with the problem of how I (or you) are going to enjoy the remaining ten or so active years of life. I'm still energetic, fit and dare I say it randy, but it's not easy to find even a casual relationship in the mountains of the west of Ireland. I made a pass at he local publican's fifty year old daughter, and the parish hasn't stopped talking about it for months. I didn't even touch her!

If it was like Bligh's south seas it wouldn't make much difference, in your mid sixties it's not very easy to jump ship, Younger men with money have all the advantages. I suppose that the solution is to give in gracefully, accept fate and write off the last quarter of the allotted span.