Super skinny boyfriend comments on my weight ALL THE TIME

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  • digidream
    digidream Posts: 27 Member
    He's not going to change,
    He's not going to get better,
    He isn't interested in a long term relationship,
    He is a user and I'll bet he'll cheat on you,
    He's not worth your attention,
    It will hurt bad to be without him,
    And after that is over, someone who will really care for you will come round.

    I feel for you, you are in a tough boat, and have to hake a hard choice to value yourself over the relationship.
    That first part was kind of poetic
  • digidream
    digidream Posts: 27 Member
    I just want to say thank you to everyone who offered advice or personal stories. I don't come on this website as often as I should, but everyone seems really really supportive and friendly here.. So I'm definitely going to come on here more often, and stop using other people as excuses for why I don't try enough.
    I'm sorry that everything came out in a huge rant but thanks for all the advice (I really didn't expect such an overwhelming rush of "ahh dump him! Set him on fire and throw the body in the river!"... but now I know that we have loads of problems that I've been trying to ignore/avoid) and I need to lose weight for the right reasons and the right way... but this was actually like a really cool counseling session.
    You guys are awesome!
  • uconnwinsnc
    uconnwinsnc Posts: 1,054 Member
    No man should weight 120 pounds. Tell him to hit the weight room and fix that scrawny little boy body of his. I know a 23 year old who has diabetes and he is jacked, so that excuse of his doesn't count.
  • Kenazwa
    Kenazwa Posts: 278 Member
    Lose 120 pounds and tell the mooch to forget your name, address, and telephone number because you're DONE. And mean it! I've had a boyfriend similar, too. He was a vampire, always sucking my resources, giving nothing back. Why I put up with it as long as I did I have no idea. You'll be asking yourself the same question after you get over the stress of dumping him, I promise.
  • It sounds like you need to take a serious look at your relationship.
    Why are you with someone who makes you feel bad about yourself?
    Why are you supporting someone who doesn't want to support themselves?

    +1 here.

    So far I didn't hear you (the OP) say one redeeming thing about him.
  • Hey! I have a quick way for you to lose 120 lbs of complete *kitten*! Just DTMFA.

    If you don't, especially after like 100 people on here have told you the same thing, you need to ask yourself, why are you staying in a relationship just so you have an excuse to complain, maintain habits that don't serve you (such as overeating, stressing) and hide behind someone else holding you back from your own success?

    Personally, I don't care for skinny guys at all. I love muscles! (Think Vin Diesel or the Rock). So make the next guy you select as your boyfriend someone buffed out who compliments you a lot and loves to do fun, sexy, active things together and maybe even hit the gym together and train you while admiring your fine self - including the booty!
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    I just want to say thank you to everyone who offered advice or personal stories. I don't come on this website as often as I should, but everyone seems really really supportive and friendly here.. So I'm definitely going to come on here more often, and stop using other people as excuses for why I don't try enough.
    I'm sorry that everything came out in a huge rant but thanks for all the advice (I really didn't expect such an overwhelming rush of "ahh dump him! Set him on fire and throw the body in the river!"... but now I know that we have loads of problems that I've been trying to ignore/avoid) and I need to lose weight for the right reasons and the right way... but this was actually like a really cool counseling session.
    You guys are awesome!
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    You're brave and strong! You will survive.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    I just want to say thank you to everyone who offered advice or personal stories. I don't come on this website as often as I should, but everyone seems really really supportive and friendly here.. So I'm definitely going to come on here more often, and stop using other people as excuses for why I don't try enough.
    I'm sorry that everything came out in a huge rant but thanks for all the advice (I really didn't expect such an overwhelming rush of "ahh dump him! Set him on fire and throw the body in the river!"... but now I know that we have loads of problems that I've been trying to ignore/avoid) and I need to lose weight for the right reasons and the right way... but this was actually like a really cool counseling session.
    You guys are awesome!
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  • sweetcurlz67
    sweetcurlz67 Posts: 1,168 Member
    Sorry girl... but it sounds like he's hindering your efforts and he's no good for you. He's using you. Dump him.

    Easy for me to say - NOW. Took me 22 years to leave an abusive relationship!
  • thuyhan7
    thuyhan7 Posts: 1
    Well...we only know what we have been told.
    He should try to motivate you by working out together or do other physical activity indoor or outdoor like hiking biking etc..
    If NOT, you have a Big decision to make because you seems like you were doing fine before he came along :) Just saying
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    Well...we only know what we have been told.
    He should try to motivate you by working out together or do other physical activity indoor or outdoor like hiking biking etc..
    If NOT, you have a Big decision to make because you seems like you were doing fine before he came along :) Just saying
    He should do a lot of things, but lazy mooching douchecanoe seems to be his particular idiom. (ETA: people don't usually make things up like "comes over, eats us out of house and home, and leaves" or "pouts like a titty-baby when someone else wants their fair share" and even if we're only hearing one side of the story, there's no excuse for the things he's saying to her, no matter how she behaves back. She may have things to fix about herself, true, but that's on her. She can't fix the things that he needs to fix about himself, so if he's not willing to, shipping him off is the only reasonable response.)
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Well...we only know what we have been told.
    He should try to motivate you by working out together or do other physical activity indoor or outdoor like hiking biking etc..
    If NOT, you have a Big decision to make because you seems like you were doing fine before he came along :) Just saying

    I don't necessarily agree. Being supportive doesn't mean he has to motivate her. She needs to do that for herself.

    He really should just stop being a lazy self absorbed and rude mooch.
    She may have things to fix about herself, true, but that's on her. She can't fix the things that he needs to fix about himself, so if he's not willing to, shipping him off is the only reasonable response.)

    indeed. 100% and then some agree.
  • kuolo
    kuolo Posts: 251 Member
    Umm do you think it's possible he may have an ED?
    Underweight, binges, skint, eats the cupboards bare, obsessive about food and weight...
    Just a thought. Sometimes people behave inappropriately because they are struggling themselves.
  • ValGogo
    ValGogo Posts: 2,168 Member
    Well...we only know what we have been told.
    He should try to motivate you by working out together or do other physical activity indoor or outdoor like hiking biking etc..
    If NOT, you have a Big decision to make because you seems like you were doing fine before he came along :) Just saying

    I don't necessarily agree. Being supportive doesn't mean he has to motivate her. She needs to do that for herself.

    He really should just stop being a lazy self absorbed and rude mooch.
    She may have things to fix about herself, true, but that's on her. She can't fix the things that he needs to fix about himself, so if he's not willing to, shipping him off is the only reasonable response.)

    indeed. 100% and then some agree.


    He sounds like he has a drug problem. But that's just my opinion.

    First what I'm gonna say has nothing to do with drug addiction. I'm just using it as an example for the paragraph below. As a 12-stepper (ex pot smoker, coke blower and sometimes drinker) who goes to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, in N/A we have a saying...."you can carry the message but you can't carry the addict."

    I'm quoting that because I hear among sharing addicts (ad nauseam) is how "this and this person doesn't support me" and honestly, it's not anyone else's job to support us in our search for recovery. We are looking to make a change in our lives, we are responsible.

    As for your "weight" issue, your boyfriend doesn't have to support you in your weight loss. It doesn't seem like he even supports himself but that's another issue. I don't think the weight is your problem. I think your relationship is your problem and also what you allow this guy to get away with. We act and attract what we feel. You are in control of what you allow to happen in your life and how people treat you.

    This douche you call a boyfriend has got to go. We know it and you know it and it's only a matter of time until you get sick of it enough to end it.
  • At 5'4, whether you're 115 or 135, you are at a perfect weight.

    Women are built differently than men, maybe you should teach him some stuff, oh and, stop buying him food!!! I can't stand men who mooch. Make him pay you!!

    You'll learn, hopefully sooner than later :wink:
  • ValGogo
    ValGogo Posts: 2,168 Member
    You need to lose about 120 pounds. Everyone before me who said Love Yourself and move on with your life was right! AND i'm 5'3 and there is not way you were chubby at 115.... If i was 115 my family would be calling an intervention... it sounds like you need an intervention of your own. Please love yourself and do what is good for you!

    Ditto!
  • thatATLgirl
    thatATLgirl Posts: 60 Member
    Focus on YOU and what YOU need to eat. What an *kitten*.
  • survivor1952
    survivor1952 Posts: 250 Member
    This is not a healthy relationship. RUN! I have read through all of the replies and everyone here is basically saying you are selling yourself short by staying in this toxic relationship. A relationship should be based on mutual respect & he clearly has none. Not only is he insulting to you and damaging your self esteem but he is a freeloader. Get rid of him. YOU CAN DO MUCH, MUCH BETTER.
  • Talk to him. Tell him his comments are hurtful, rude and annoying. Tell him you can't afford to feed him if he doesn't pay his half. Tell him you won't feed him any longer unless he pays for his share. Tell him that if he makes hurtful remarks to you, he has to leave. And stick to it. If he loves you, and he's really a decent person, he'll change his ways. If he doesn't, then you know that you're with a man who KNOWS he's hurting you and damaging you financially but doesn't want to stop. Do you want to be the woman who chooses to stay with a man who is deliberately abusing her?

    People treat us the way we let them treat us.
  • cakebatter07
    cakebatter07 Posts: 814 Member
    He sounds like a jerk. Why would you even want to be in a relationship with someone like that? There are much nicer guys out there, trust me. :)
  • Crateria_
    Crateria_ Posts: 253 Member
    Sounds like an asshat. You deserve better than that. You know for yourself as well that he's no good for you by what you've said yourself.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    Are you sure he has diabetes and not huevonitis?
  • ricki011
    ricki011 Posts: 89 Member
    It will get worse! Leave now, and don't look back!
  • What an abusive loser. SERIOUSLY? Ditch the *kitten* and find yourself a REAL man.
  • RaggedyAnnazon
    RaggedyAnnazon Posts: 183 Member
    I didn't even finish reading that, I got to the part where you'll eat everything just so he won't and just couldn't read anymore.

    A few things:
    1. and this is in caps because it's very important to you're health, mind and life: THIS IS AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP YOU ARE IN, AND YOU NEED TO GET OUT. This man is using you, mistreating you and doesn't care. He is a leech. I've known people like that and it never ends well. One I know is 28, still jobless, not alowed to see his kid and crashes on anyones couch. The second has gotten enormously fat (like this Violet the blueberry in Willie Wonka) and his wife is so thin a feather could break her in half because he eats all the food and wont let her eat, but she's the one working.

    You have to - I repeat - have to- get out of this relationship at all costs. If you don't believe me, this is something I heard once before for cant recall where from.

    Leave yourself a voicemail of whats going on, then play it back to yourself as if it's a friend calling you looking for help or advice.
    What would you think about that friends situation? Retake a look at this post you made, and pretend you didn't write it, pretend someone else on MFP did (I'll even repost with it if that'll help) and look at the situation again.

    I say this with a lot of compassion - you have to get rid of him.

    2. Idk where you live, but jobs are becoming a bit easier, and even then, food stamps and food boxes are offered to a lot of people. Whatever his issue is, he needs to handle it.

    3rdly: You can lose weight almost instantly, by dropping his 90lb sorry *kitten* and living you're life as the sexy, strong and independant woman you are. Eat you're own **cking food and own those streachy shorts. Because you're beautiful and you desurve better.

    *side note: to help read "He's just not that into you" by Greg Behrant, very helpful
  • RaggedyAnnazon
    RaggedyAnnazon Posts: 183 Member
    Talk to him. Tell him his comments are hurtful, rude and annoying. Tell him you can't afford to feed him if he doesn't pay his half. Tell him you won't feed him any longer unless he pays for his share. Tell him that if he makes hurtful remarks to you, he has to leave. And stick to it. If he loves you, and he's really a decent person, he'll change his ways. If he doesn't, then you know that you're with a man who KNOWS he's hurting you and damaging you financially but doesn't want to stop. Do you want to be the woman who chooses to stay with a man who is deliberately abusing her?

    People treat us the way we let them treat us.

    Although you're advice would be helpful if this were a new realationship, it's pointless with this one. She's been seeing him for years, if he hasn't noticed his own actions and hurtful remarks and changed himself, he never will.
  • MystikPixie
    MystikPixie Posts: 342 Member
    You already know what to do, get rid of him.
  • Beezil
    Beezil Posts: 1,677 Member
    He's either really stupid or really cruel, but I think it's more likely that he's just really stupid and has no clue how to appropriately communicate to you that he's got a problem with you putting on weight. Educate him or break up with him, either way you obviously shouldn't continue such an unhealthy relationship.

    My husband is "super skinny" at about 5'10 and 120lbs soaking wet. I have tracked calories for him before when he was trying to put on weight after a hospital stay, and he actually doesn't eat nearly as much as he should, although it seems like he eats a ton sometimes. Interestingly, there is a common misconception that skinny people can eat whatever they want because they are naturally skinny - when in fact, they may have a higher metabolism by genetics, sure, but it is also likely they don't eat nearly as much as people think. Husband should eat around 3000-3500 calories to gain weight, can barely hit 2000 most days. It is a struggle for a lot of people and it's scary sometimes...

    Anyways, good luck to you. Just talk to your bf... tell him everything you've told the people on this forum.
  • RaggedyAnnazon
    RaggedyAnnazon Posts: 183 Member
    Another think I forgot to mention, this was actually my #2:

    I'm currently doing research on Anorexia for a college assignment. Just from interviews, I can positivly tell you what this.......guy, is doing is setting your mind up to be anorexic. All it takes and can start out as is you thinking you're fighting your boyfriend on this, but once he's gone, you'll still be fighting something. Suddenly you'll start to develop anorexia, and that's a scary thought to think you're letting one scrawny diabetic set you up for a full blown psycosis.
  • harley97ya
    harley97ya Posts: 11 Member
    I'm sure you knew when you posted this that everyone was going to tell you to break up with your boyfriend. Like any other food that you can't resist, he is toxic to, not only your weight goals, but also to your life goals. If you stay with this person and have kids, you will be teaching your future son how to treat women and/or your future daughter what to put up with from men.

    Fight for YOURSELF in your weight goals and life goals. Remember, dating is sort of like a job interview for life. If you're being put down by this guy now, imagine what he will say after you've had a child and your body has really changed.

    I'm supporting YOU. Have a great day for you!!