hi ken you wrote: >... but she is at the age where hormones can >do bad things to her mental processes.... ken, ken, ken! i know you've had a couple of smacks already for this crack but i can't resist adding my own! in my humble opinion my [female] experience with personality changes due to hormones has given me insight into the area of behaviours/brain chemistry i might even venture to suggest that the female experience tends to give women more insight than men in this area personally as a broad generalization, of course, i'd rather have a menopausal woman at the helm [full of insight-induced caution] than a menopausal man [full of denial-induced aggression] strange about male menopause it does exist as you acknowledge but there's a movement afoot to re-name it 'andro-pause' i wonder why? your menopausal syber-syblyng janet [log in to unmask]