One midlife malady that seems to be fairly shared among couples is stubbornness; being set in our ways; no more Mr./Ms. Nice Guy/Gal; I need, I want, I feel, I need some more, etc.
The kids are out of the house and now it’s “ME TIME”. So, if you have two people sharing their lives together exercising their self-indulgent newly found freedom, what happens when the wills clash?
To budge or not to budge? Sometimes it can go beyond the tug of rope named “Compromising” to the silent but deadly “Standoff”. The problem with the Standoff is it gets extremely tiring and it is impossible to win.
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Jan
Mid Life Madness
Hysterectomy and hysterical. Any correlation between these words? I dug in and found something that seems to explain the female condition, well, mine at least.
The word “hyster” originates from the greek and latin language and actually means, “of the womb“, which fully explains the root for the word, hysterectomy. Why then would the same root word be attached to hysterical? Hmmmmm. Check this out from the Online Etymology Dictionary:
hysterical 
1615, from L. hystericus “of the womb,” from Gk. hysterikos “of the womb, suffering in the womb,” from hystera “womb” (see uterus). Originally defined as a neurotic condition peculiar to women and thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus.Hysterics is 1727; hysteria, abstract noun from hysteric, first recorded 1801 as a medical term.
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Jan
Menopause
