I’ve said it in other threads, but I’ll say it again here - I will NEVER tell my wife. She has the ability to flip everything around to be about her, and always in a negative way. Here’s a recent example. Our son was home over Christmas and shared with us some great news! He recently was given the team lead position at work, implementing the core IPR of the founder, and just got a 21% raise! He is now the highest paid engineer at work, after only 1.5 years out of school! My wife starts crying saying, “..I’ve been working for years and I can’t make that much money..” Fucking unreal.
Anyway.. She’s also incapable of ever saying anything I may take as a compliment. But she has made a comment twice which I believe was related to my increase in size. “Did you take some kind of pill?” Same comment, about two years apart. Both times I just replied, “Nope, why?” She doesn’t answer.
My increase has been substantial so she has to have noticed. Others certainly have. I get my share of meat-gazers now and I like it. Yup, I do this for me. :)