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Lets say for a moment that 1/2 of the divorces could be prevented. Perhaps more, maybe less, I really don’t have any hard numbers, just some hard ponderances.
My wife and I were trying to hash this out the other night, no we aren’t getting the axe. The last two couples I know who are getting the big D had very similar stories and if they hadn’t been so close together in time frame I doubt I’d be writing this.
The wife is very unhappy, not really sure why, just unhappy, fighting depression, and confused.
Divorces happen for a boat load of reasons. Sometimes they are some of the best decisions a woman can make. But, these seem different.
As far as I know and can see the husbands are nice and non-abusive. So for the sake of this story we are going to follow this line of thinking. They don’t cuss or drink or wear barbeque stained wife-beater shirts. They don’t gamble or smoke or go out all night with their buddies. They aren’t perfect, but really none of us are. Being married reveals and highlights your imperfections.
After being married for 123 years, whoops I meant 13 years.I know it is work, sometimes a lot of work. I also know my wife sometimes wants to wring my neck. Like after she reads this post.
I know from talking to my wife that women have some wild hormone fluctuations. I also know from trying to help women for the past 10 years with supplements and herbs has become very difficult.
Seriously, 10 years ago I used to advertise and lecture on balancing hormones. I quit 5 years ago because it became exceedingly unpredictable on who could be helped. What used to be easy and fun had become very hard to do.
From a clinical standpoint women have become more hormonally screwed up than ever before. Heaven forbid, don’t send send me nasty emails, thinking that I’m blaming women for divorces. Far from it, just stick around til the end. Don’t kill the messenger.
Here is the million dollar question…
Are some divorces related to hormone imbalances?
I’ve thought about this stuff for the past 5 years. If you ask most 80-90 year old women if they ever had hormone problems the answer is about the same. They had none or just a fraction of what a typical 50 or 60 year old has now. Heck many 30 year olds have a lot of problems. So I know I’m not too far off base when I say women have far more hormone problems now-a-days.
Women are
more stressed
have more expectations
have more demands on time
have more shoes to wear
and juggling more balls in the air than ever before
Let’s just say for a moment that a woman’s hormones are off kilter, every little irritation that would normally just bounce off becomes a major deal.
-The dishes aren’t done
-The clothes are on the floor
-The tooth paste was squeezed in the middle
-The bed isn’t made
-The toilet seat is up
Everyone has that one thing that can get to them, like that cartoon, “I have one nerve and you’re standing on it.”
So who bears the brunt of this irritaion? The spouse.
Is it the womans fault? No
And really it isn’t just women, it could relate to men as well, but if I used men as the example no one would read this. So how do the hormones get so out of whack?
1. The birth control pill use
2. Fertility drugs like “Clomid”
3. Nutitional deficiencies
4. Pesticides in foods
5. Continuous weight gain
6. Fatigue
7. Thyroid insufficiency
8. Postmenopausal hormone drugs
Wow, that’s a heck ‘uv a list. The main reason women bear the brunt of this problem is because half of the problems relate to estrogen medications or pesticides that mimic estrogen hormones. Estrogen being the major hormone in making a woman a woman.
This post can get very, very long if I detail each of these problems, so I’m going to pick the problems that started this whole discussion with my wife.
That would be #3. Nutitional deficiencies.
It all started because I made the comment that Royal Lee, DDS. once wrote that the first system to go off line when there are nutritional deficiencies is the hormone system. I thought, wow, how amazing is that, especially since it was written 70+ years ago.
February 15, 1934
“If an endocrine organ fails to receive the proper nutrition, it is unable to secrete a functionally normal hormone. If the nutrition is severe enough, the result will be atrothy… If the deficiency is less severe, over a longer period, (the result is nervous stimulation to excessive activity.”
April 16, 1934
“Oversecretion of the ovarian calcium-depressing hormone is responsible for the nervous, irritable and hysteric type of woman, because of the nervous irritability occasioned by the low serum calcium. Vtamin therapy is particularly successful in normalizing this type, and the use of ‘Catalyn’ is indicated. Vitamins C,D and F are all factors. This type usually has a prematurely aged appearance, and the effect of vitamin therapy is often an obvious rejuvenation.”
Could the lack of nutrition and vitamins in general make a person more irritable and unhappy, sure, is it the only reason, no … but I found the thought interesting enough to share with you. I hate to see the break up of a marriage, especially if it is possibly related to nutrition.
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