Melissa McClure's husband asked if it was a midlife crisis.
No she told him: "I’m wide awake to the possibility of what my life can be and it doesn’t include you.”
McClure wasn’t sleeping well. She had hot flashes. Her husband’s loud chewing sent her into a rage. His negative attitude bothered her and she no longer felt appreciated as a wife and stepmother.
They’d been together for 14 years, but perimenopause made her realize she wanted a divorce.
“We spend our entire adult lives taking care of our husbands or partners and children. We give so much of ourselves to other people as nurturers that we lose ourselves in the process,” says the photographer, 44. “It wasn’t a midlife crisis, but an awakening.”
