Is it normal for a long-term partner to gain weight?
That said, you’d expect a little bit more leeway from a committed long-term partner. Weight gain is a touchy subject, and even when true, it’s shitty to accept that it could affect attraction in one’s relationship. Twenty pounds, though, is not a distorting amount of weight to put on most body types.
Do you feel embarrassed when you gain weight?
It’s easy to feel ashamed, guilty and embarrassed if you’ve gained or regained weight. Weight gain happens, so shift your focus from the past and set your sights on the concrete actions you can take to move forward. So quit beating yourself up over that cup of ice cream you ate late last night, instead focus on what you are going to do tonight.
Is it lazy dating advice to lose weight to attract more men?
It’s lazy dating advice telling you to lose weight to attract more men. I’m not passing judgment either way, but I will point out that it’s a pretty similar comparison — one which illustrates, in stark terms, that life simply isn’t fair. Do lots of women judge men on their financial status?
Why does my boyfriend have such a visceral reaction to weight gain?
That he’d have such a visceral reaction to a fairly negligible amount of weight gain suggests he is not very realistic about the normal ways bodies can change. I hope that you’re losing weight for yourself, not him—attempting to please someone with such stringent restrictions is almost always a losing game.
Do you gain weight when you’re happy?
The oddest part about it, though, is that it’s not the sad kind of weight gain often brought on by stress and depression; it’s the happy kind. It’s like the people who this ailment plagues gain ten pounds of pure happiness (usually in the midsection).
What happens when a man gains weight and becomes unattractive?
When men gain weight and become physically unattractive to their partner, “what usually happens is the woman takes it much more as a sign that he doesn’t love her. Women tend to personalize things,” Mary Jo Rapini, a psychotherapist who specializes in intimacy and sexuality at the Methodist Weight Management Center in Houston, observes.