Getting Fit Leads to Divorce?

A recent study this month shows that if one person in a relationship makes a significant healthy weight loss, and the other hasn’t, it could derail the relationship. Here’s the deal. The syudy claims that in some relationships that the one who’s lost the weight may nag the other to jump on the bandwagin. Or, in some cases, the one who hadn’t lost the weight may sabotage their partner with junk food in order to get them back to their ld size.


So, does this mean that couples who are overwight should avoid losing weight for fear of driving a wedge between them? Heck no! The study says that often the healthy lifestyle brings couples together, but in some instances, it drives couplpes apart.


My take is that if the lifestyle change creates a riff, there was something else already under the surface that was going to show it face at some point anyway. The sudy mentions different scenarios:


• Nagging a partner to get healthier


• Insecurity with partner’s weight loss


• Withholding of sex until partner gained the weight back


If you are nagging your partner to lose the weight, odds are you’re stuck on the physical. Yes, we all want our partners to be healthy, but did we marry them for their looks or for who they are? If it’s for looks, things were bound to go bad at some point. If you are insecrue about yoiur partner’s healthy change, that’s not their problem. It’s yours. If your relationship is based on a solid foundation, then there’s nothing to fear, and if you are unhappy with your health, then do something about it like your partner. And, if you are withhloding sex so you can have your “teddy bear” back, you are sabotaging your partner, again, because you feel bad about yourself, and misery loves company. 


Don’t be afraid to get healthy. Doing


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it together really does bring you closer and it can also be an aphrodisiac. Check it out.

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Published on November 22, 2013 20:56
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