Badshae:
I feel most alive when gaining. I've gone from 150 to 250lbs in the past, and always end up losing it because my partner doesn't approve.
It's not approval so much as it is projection. He has had problems with how own weight gain as a kid and judges himself harshly. So me wanting to be fat just makes our relationship somewhat fragile and I can tell it depressed him.
I wish all the time I could convince him to support this or make him enjoy it some magical way, but that is unrealistic.
I love my partner, and this sacrifice sometimes eats at me. 😓
This is not healthy relationship behavior. What's he gonna do if you didn't have a fat kink and still put on weight? Nah, this is toxic behavior from him if he's projecting his insecurities onto you.
Reminds me of my mother, a little bit. She and I look a lot alike. As such, she often projected her insecurities onto me even if we had different circumstances. For example, when I was 5'6" and 115 lbs, my mom - then 5'9" and 160 ~ 170 lbs - openly envied my size. When I put on 5 lbs (of muscle no less) and went from underweight to the low end of normal - she went insane and said it was better for me to be 115.
Of course, that's your husband, not your mom. Can't handle things the same way.
If you guys haven't done so, you two need to have a heart to heart. Tell him that you want to gain - that it makes you happy. You understand he doesn't like it, but the way he projects his insecurities onto you makes you feel miserable.
Does he do this with anything else? Or is it just this one thing?)