I have read two contributions that refer to leg cramps in the middle of the night. They go away immediately with the ingestion of some salt and they don’t appear at all if supper has something salty in it

My 40 year old daughter and I have been at odds for a few years. That is what usually wakes me at that time. Yes - it’s about the bum she’s decided to put before everything else in her life. Women can get so stupid over those 3-legged youknowwhats. I know I had my share, so naturally, so does she. Waiting to have my daughters love again.

my husband wakes me up around 4 to 4;30, thats when i really fall sound asleep and dream. wow some dreams have been weird and I do dream in color, ha several people laugh at that.

hopefully I’ve fallen back asleep from waking at 3 a.m.

Either my 3 year old as she walks into our room eagerly celebrating a new day or my husband snoring in my ear.

The Los Angeles Times hitting my front gate at exactly 4a.m. 7 days a week. However, its OK because the morning delivery must be a miserable job. Imagine going to a full days work after you have thrown 500 newspapers out of the back of a truck!

The voices in my head. They just talk and talk ad nauseum. They get angry if I don’t contribute to their conversation.

I awake in the middle of the nite due to menopause, anxiety, pending divorce, financial insecurity…and I truly think that most women do the same. Where and how do women “start over” I wonder. I tolerated 30 yrs. of marriage and now “he” decided to take another partner while we are still married. Oh yes, the typical the wife is the last to know etc. I thought your website full of powerful, independent women would be eager to advise so I write to you in the hope of becoming wiser and enabled. I am a powerful, attractive woman who just doesn’t have a college degree although always managed to finagle a job, have lived both in and out of the U.S. and always managed to hold my own. However, now with three daughters in their 20s my biggest fear is that I look weak and some days I FEEL weak as I feel sorry for myself because I never really knew the person that I was married to all of these years. The power of his “COO” position and those that surround him that would do anything to ensure job security etc. has made me indispensable. So where are the resources? I moved to L.A. and yikes, don’t know where to begin……

The fact that I’m alone in my bed.

Thinking about my son, who I gave up for adoption 33 years ago and who found me last year! How cool is that? Oh and it used to be hot flashes but not anymore -thank god for HRT (yes I know the dangers but losing 3 hours sleep ever night is the pits)

Just to clarify the last reply- I’m obviously on my husbands e mail - menopausal madness again!

I wish I knew. I’d stop it.

the song playing in my head, which is usually my spirit sending me messages, oh yeah and those damn hot flashes & a wicked urge to pee.

4 - 09 - 08. A story idea. I’m a writer/ag journalist and sometimes a chapter of a book I am writing will start writing itself in my head or I’ll get a great idea for a lead-in on a story I’m doing for the paper, and I have to go to the computer and get it down. I’m 76, and if I don’t, it will be gone when I get up a couple of hours later.

That my husband, the restless one, is missing from our bed. He leaves in order not to wake me up, and I hear the t.v. in the distance as he needs noise to sleep. ~vnf