Thanks for my 100 day Medifasticelebration, Nancy. Can I throw in a little "self-doubting" on my list, lol? You KNOW I have been that, too. And I thank you and all others for sometimes tickling me out of that decrepit place, which might be the dark hole of fat-returns.
Yes, Berkshiregrl, there really is a SO who would rather switch than fight, i.e. who would rather not pay for another pair of Target pants in case these size 4s get big -- which I have a feeling isn't going to be any threat -- in order to save a little $$. Mixing analogies, of course, Virginia/Santa Clause with that old Tarreyton cigarette commercial. He isn't bipolar, he's bi-pocket. Does not want a cash leak. Still, it's annoying to get feedback like that about money. He maintains that I could've done "the same thing" drinking just fruit juices and saved that money, too -- as if THAT would ever happen OR I'd have survived it feeling so well/healthy.
All things considered, I really have learned to consider the source most of the time, like fedup said about separating the person and the behavior. I could be wrong, but it just seems like some people do not make/enact the same behavioral equations in the communications between their heads/mouth that I was taught to consider, and sometimes I think they also aren't inclined to be introspective or empathetic. Things will work out OK. I am a kind of piece of work myself -- always in training.