hmmmmm, frustration is upon me! in a way i feel quite humerous about this subject, but then again it is really begining to tie my tummy into knots.we as Christian women work hard to control the emotional side that our male friends/boy friends do not seem to 'get'. And that is completely understandable, just as we do not click in with their mind 24-7 neither can they! But for women there is about 1 week of our month that breaks all the rules. I annoy myself to no end during these weeks of lack of control! I find that myself and other women i have spoken to do not hwo to handle these circumstances. For it is not that we wish to act differently at these times, or that we just make excuses for acting in outrageous ways, but there is somethign in our minds that just does not let us see how emotionally excessive we are being . Its like for a week of my life my brain will not click in and tell me that I am being irrationable or unreasonable. But you feel that you are completely in the right when you sense crazy feelings raising their horns. What do we do as Christians in this sense? For during these times we do not know we are acting in a wrong way until after we look back and laugh, or cry, at ourselves and are embarrassed by our actions. I work constantly on controlling my emotions, getting my mind under control and holding it captive to what I want to think and say. But that all falls apart for 12 weeks of the year and I feel that the work I completed a month before disappears and I am back to square one. How do we stop our emotions from taking us over so often when we cannot even recognize that we are giving in to the feelings usually easily restrained.I have no real answer for this, for I personally really and truly believe I am acting normally during these weeks while my fiance begs to differ. Do we pray healing or do we pray for grace for those around us? How do you stop yourself from acting on emotions when you do not see it as irrational thinking at the time? no recognition = emotions becoming actions = not how I wish to live my life ahhhhhh Lord please help!