
20. … even when one person gives a sincere effort to help their partner.
Projected winner continues, explaining her honorable attempts to encourage a healthier lifestyle. “I tried to encourage him to undertake a lifestyle change with me, hoping a) he would stop giving me gross amounts of food for myself and 2) that he would learn to moderate himself. However, it didn’t take until I broke up with him because watching him eat grossed me out and I had gained fifteen pounds whilst dating him. He would offer me an enormous portion, or offer to buy a second meal for us to split while we were out, and I would refuse and say, ‘One person, one portion,’ and try to get him to split one single entrée with me, or only one appetizer rather than three.
It was revolting and the primary reason I broke up with him. He told me after we broke up that he didn’t make an effort to lose weight because he “knew [I] loved [him] no matter what,” but once he didn’t have a girlfriend, knowing that nobody else was going to deal with him eating family-sized portions for himself, he dropped sixty pounds. He got a new girlfriend. Weight’s back for both him and her.”