For most people a healthy and steady relationship is the ambition. This leads into family and kids, moving in and then growing old together. But the first step is always that relationship with a person you love. This can be tricky for a lot of people, most will achieve it at some point in their lives but people are much less willing to settle than they once were. Where divorce was once an absolute rarity it has now become much more common than living happily ever after. It can be a little discouraging to realise this but the facts speak for themselves.
Most single people will spend a lot more time looking after their appearance than those in relationships. This is largely because they’re trying to attract the man/woman of their dreams but also because they don’t have the security of a partner giving their self-esteem that little boost.
A recent study has shown that love could genuinely make you fat. Or rather being secure and in a loving relationship could. On average people tend to stop watching their figures once they settle down and couples put on around 18 pounds together in the first few years. For many this might be because time once spent exercising gets taken up with kids or spending time with your partner. For others it might simply be that they don’t have strangers to impress anymore. Regardless of the reason behind it, the fact remains the same; love could well cause you to put on weight.
This shouldn’t be something to put you off finding the man/woman of your dreams. If it concerns you then you can always work hard to be in that minority who manage to keep their figure while in a relationship. It’s certainly not impossible to be. The fact is that you won’t have to try as hard to impress the world when you’ve got the stability of someone else loving you.
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