Javier is encountered as confused with changes to his wife. It is sadness, he says, the loss of the woman she married, starting with her natural self. “I really liked to feel her body, her big body, next to me in bed, her softness. The extra belly and extra prey were comforting and reassuring, “he says. “I miss this. The massive, to be able to lean and feel it, for the lack of a better word, muttered on me or on me. This is no longer an option. ”
Before prescribing these medicines, clinical doctors will advise patients with known side effects-partial, constipation, nausea, vomiting, headache and the need for diet and exercise modifications. They will explain the dosage timetable and may discuss the cost. This, more or less, is where professional guidance ends. But the effects of extreme weight loss on love relationships can be deep. The first and most substantial research related to the subject goes back to 2018, when a group of Swedish epidemiologists published a study on the effect of bariatric surgery on marriage. After surgery, they found, married couples were more likely than those in a control group to divorce or split up, while individual people were more likely to get married. In couples, “there is such an attempt to keep things the same,” says Robyn Pashby, a clinical psychologist who specializes in issues related to weight loss or profit. “When a person changes, the system changes. This unknown contract was cut off.”
Jeanne and Javier agree that the last 10 months have been the most difficult of their married life-shiver than depression after Jeanne or their decision that Javier will become a parent staying at home that depends on Jeanne’s corporate work . Everyone was in individual treatment, long and up, for years. Since Jeanne started Zepbound, it has been in the treatment of couples. “I said to her,” I don’t recognize you. I need a road map, “says Javier.” I think he has become a different person. “
Javier’s therapist recently sent him a link In a three -phase curriculum for couples who hope to start their sex life. In the first phase, both partners remain fully dressed. Someone touches the other everywhere except the erogenous zones, while the partner he accepts says what they do and don’t like them. Then they change the roles. Jeanne and Javier tried it once and Javier says he “enjoyed it too.” But when she asked Jeanne if she wanted to do it again, she said no – she wasn’t ready. “I mean, this is nervous-racking for me. Why do I get physically reconnected with my wife when she doesn’t appreciate or like or want to touch?” He says. Her body is “something new and exciting for me and I would like to explore it.”
Jeanne, who drives with a generous smile, feels like molting. “I’m very much in flow,” Jeanne explains. “As I haven’t caught my body.” She says that last year’s primary experience, in addition to a radical decline in her appetite, was a discovery of her own limits and the ability to claim them. It is a peculiar people from temperament, and now Jeanne has noticed that it is easier to say no to work, in social situations and the extensive family, as well as in Javier. The bedroom is where her new boundaries appeared more clearly. He didn’t want to have sex for at least five years, he told me, but until last March, he complied: “I felt like it was my responsibility and I wanted to solve this problem.” He told me he wants want To have sex, but at the moment it doesn’t.