Husbands and Weight Gain
February 4th, 2009 | by admin |Not all guys are such princes. Some have no compunction about critiquing their wives bodies’ right to their faces or in front of their friends. Perhaps even more insidious are the vague comments - the ones that could be cruel or kind and just cause major confusion. Listen to Veronica Stewart, a registered nurse and mom of three in Franklin Village, Michigan, who’s gone from 127 to 180 pounds in 13 years of marriage: “I never know what to make of my husband’s comments concerning my gain weight problem.
He’ll never say anything flat-out negative, but he’ll see some hot babe on TV and say, you used to look that good. Maybe that’s his idea of encouraging me, but it just feels like salt in a wound. Or we’ll go out to dinner and he’ll wave the waiter away at dessert time and say, just the check, please. Should I be happy that he’s trying to help me lose weight, or go with my gut and feel wounded, as if he’s trying to punish me somehow? I’m too scared to ask for the truth.”
