Funny Mirror Manipulator

Side 1 says... My husband was upset I had gained weight after our first child. He wasn't overly mean about it but he would always take pot shots at me. Sometimes it would cause us to fight for days and always left me crying.

Then it stopped. It completely stopped. Out of nowhere he didn't say a single word to me about my weight even though I was 15lbs above when we married (or even more than when we were fighting about my weight). Keep in mind he's in the military and always has no body fat.

I began to wonder what he was doing behind my back because this doesn't happen. He's no cheater so I thought he was just uninterested in me. Then I started to look at myself in the mirror.

I looked like a cow in everything I threw on. I felt disgusting and everything seemed to make me feel fatter than I thought I was. And maybe he was right. I did let myself go. So I started really doing something about it and went on a crash diet and started to to some exercise.

I lost 13 of those 15 pounds in less than a month and was on my way to more when he finally laughed. I was so excited I was losing weight for him and he was just so excited his plan worked.

One day while I was shopping, he replaced every mirror in the house with a circus mirror. Not mirrors that make you look completely ridiculous. These were bent just enough to make you look fatter. And he told me this after I told him about my weight loss!

I was so mad!

He completely manipulated me into losing weight and that is so much different than being supportive. If he is manipulating me like this, I am worried he can manipulate me any time he wants! It's evil the way he did it. It's almost sinister to play a psychological game like that with me.

Now I've gained 2 pounds back because I'm just so mad and I eat when I'm mad and now I can't find my groove again.