Part 3 - Avoiding Divorce
When a woman enters this season of life, she doesn't quite understand everything that's going on, she no longer has the patience and nurturing hormones she once had to overlook disappointments and issues in the relationship, and she may no longer want to be in the relationship.
Wikipedia, defines “grey divorce” as the demographic trend of an increasing divorce rate for older ("grey-haired") couples in long-lasting marriages.
The separation of former American vice-presidential couple Tipper and Al Gore after 40+ years of marriage and the 2021 divorce of the world's 4th richest man, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda French Gates after 27 years of marriage are high profile examples of grey divorce.
At the same time, she is experiencing intense hormone induced anxiety, fear, and mood swings and she doesn't know how long it's going to last. She doesn't know if her state is her new reality or just a phase that's temporary.
She feels like she’s falling apart and she doesn’t have the energy to work on her romantic relationship. Eventually she may initiate a divorce while saying, “I need some space. I’m suffocating and I need room to breath.”
Afterwards, when everything levels out and the anxiety and the depression and the brain fog and all of the perimenopause symptoms go away, she may even regret her decision to divorce during this period of life.
She may realize she didn’t really want to get divorced after all. But by then it's too late because they may have both already moved on.
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