The Physiological functions of women cause emotional, social, and psychological responses which men do not have. A women's maternal instinct and motherly feelings are associated with theenstrual period. Although eighteen percent of women will be menstruating at any one time, autopsies reveal that fifty percent of female suicides occur during the menstrual period. A large majority of women's crime (63% in an English study and 84% in a French study) occur just previous to this period. Number of accidents, quality of school work, intelligence test scores, and relfex actions are affected by the menstrual cycle.
Feminine Fatigue
Often husbands are unaware of the amount of energy that a woman expends in being a wife and mother. Upon conception, her body must provide nutrition and minerals not only for her own body but also for the unborn fetus. Both menstruation and childbirth are cause loss of tissue and blood which have to be replaced. If children are conceived too frequently, her body does not have opportunity to regain it's strength and her health is endangered. The birth of the child does not end the expenditure of energy but often is just the beginning, especially if the child is hyperactive. Her body continues to produce nourishment for the infant, and her tasks are greatly increased in caring for the infant. When the child becomes a toddler, the mother must constantly watch after him, carry him around when he refuses to walk, and discipline him in order to train properly. Of course, a mother finds much joy in caring for her children, but the joy does not replace the expended energy.
Although the husband may work hard in the field, the factory, or an office all day, he must not conclude that his wife has been idle, and, therefore, should be available to serve his every need. In addition to caring for children, her day has been filled with house cleaning, caring for the clothes for the entire family, and preparing meals. Often her full schedule does not leave time for social contacts with other women, while the husband has had opportunity to socialize while at work.
Fatigue makes a person less able to cope with noisiness of children and other irritations which arise everyday. Fatigue causes a person to complain and criticize those whom he or she loves most.
Dr. James F. Dobson suggests that wives depression, which is the result of busy lives and fatigue, can be reduced significantly if the husband will comprehend and accept three ideas:
Human beings tolerate stress and pressures much more easily if at least one person knows they are enduring it. Housewives can manage their domestic and family duties if their husbands understand their situation. Human understanding is essential for proper self-esteem. Everyone needs to be respected for the way he meets his responsibilities. Husbands, emotions are nurtured through job promotions, raises in pay, and the incidental praise during the workday. Wives must depend on their husbands for respect concerning their performance in the home.
Most wives can handle the daily household activities if husbands will provide help for the additional periodic tasks of cleaning appliances, waxing floors, and cleaning windows.
Families should constantly guard against overcommitment. Women as well as men need some time of their own to do the things that interest them.
Feminine Emotions
The majority of women experience recurring times of despair, discouragement, disinterest, distress, despondency, and disenchantment with their circumstances. Men become depressed over specific problems which arise in business and in personal and family life, but women experience a cyclical pattern of emotional ups and downs.
The variation between emotional highs and lows will be less in some women than in others. Those who do not get very excited about anything likely will not descend as deeply into depression as those who are excitable. An experience which produces an extreme "high" will also set the state for an emotional experience. Persons who understand this pattern will be able to endure depression more easily. Emotional experiences require more physical energy. An increase in emotions causes the adrenal glands to produce more adrenaline which speeds up the metabolism of the body. This process prepares the body to respond more rapidly and efficiently during fear, excitement, or tension. As long as the emotional response is above normal, the body will be using an abnormal amount of energy. When the emotions return to normal, the body is left exhausted, therefore, periods of emotional excitement are followed by periods of fatigue and depression. The condition is corrected when the body is rested and energy is restored.
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