A Spouse’s Weight Gain Could Affect Your Sex Life

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Liz and Danny (names changed) have been in a committed relationship for more than a decade. Physically attracted from the moment they locked eyes, emotional intimacy came later and grew over time.

Fast-forward 10 years. At 41, Liz remains slender. But Danny, 46, is no longer the lean, dark, handsome type she fell for. Now, she says, his 6-ft.-1-inch frame is “more than a little fleshy and mushy” and the weight gain is a turnoff. So much so, she’s found herself uninterested in sleeping with him. She’s unhappy; he’s growing more resentful.

“It’s hard to admit but he’s simply not attractive to me any more,” she says. “I’m turned off by his belly fat and love handles.”

“It’s kind of symbolic of the way he feels about our relationship,” she says. “I have refused to have sex with him on several occasions.”

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

Sabine says Kurt (names changed) began piling on the pounds 18 months into their three-year relationship.

“I’m not sure if it was because he was getting too comfortable or because his adolescent skinny boy metabolism was just growing into middle-aged fat man metabolism. Regardless, he was getting bigger and not in a good way… he was growing man boobs,” Sabine recalls. “I was getting really grossed out.”

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We got dudes outchea grossing out their girls with their sloppy bodies (and probably their poor fashion choices as well). We got to be better than this, bros.

Go home after work today. Embrace your girl. Tell her you're sorry for what you've become. And replace that Double Baconator and fries with a chicken breast and some almonds.

Do it for the one you love. But more importantly, do it for you. Ya boy Pecker is here for you.