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Afraid to tell: Ulli Hansen feared separation.Menopause doesn't only change life for women it can also make life difficult for husbands, partners and children who are forced to cope with something they don't understand.Businesswoman Ulli Hansen, 53, refused to tell her male partner about her hot flushed and mood swings for fear she'd lose him."I had a couple of businesses at the time and I was in a bit of daze," Ms Hansen of Cremorne, on Sydney's North Shore, said."The hardest thing I remember was blushing and my hot flushes. My skin would become dry and my emotions were topsy turvy. My depression lingered on long after I started the hormone replacement therapy." April 28, 1993. (Photo by Simon Alekna/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).