The three major reasons for divorce in the United States have been the same reasons for the last hundred years, even though over the years, the three reasons swap places with one another. Those reasons are money, sex, and in-laws, but not necessarily in that order. Let's take a look at how diet could influence each one of these.
A six hundred pound man and a four hundred pound woman having sex, yuk. So much for sex, we know they don't have a sex life worth picturing and we know they have to buy all that food too. So what money is going to be left over to go water skiing? Or sky diving? See the problem? Obviously, they do not. It must be love. So let's talk about in-laws.
A mother-in-law is a groom's greatest nightmare, especially if she is fat. By natural selection man has gained the ability over millions of years of evolution to poke fun of fat women, and this means trouble in paradise for the poor innocent groom. He starts with little jokes to his loving bride about her mother's weight problem. He says things like "I would have been home sooner, but I had to go around your mother." or "They are having a tent sale down the street. I think I seen one that would fit your mother." This may seem insensitive to the bride, but she must understand that it is mother natures way of handling the stress of marrying a beautiful woman. A compliment really. He's just trying to make his bride laugh, so he can have more sex. This of course will save money from not having to go out shopping and eventually solidify the marriage. He's doing a good thing.
The bride on the other hand sees the way he treats his own mother. Sort of like a Saint or a Goddess. He pays twice as much for gifts for MOTHER than he does for his bride, and he stops off after work to eat dinner there almost every evening. She gives her advice almost constantly, and he listens, even though he never remembers what his bride was saying during commercials on the sports channel. And then there is his father who stares at the brides breasts when he talks to her, which is a rare occasion. The talking that is. The staring on the other hand is more of a locked on leer. And hubby never notices for one moment.
The bride in these situations almost always feel guilty about her actions. While her husband seems to smile and drink his beer, she has been sulking and grinding her teeth. All the signals point to her as the problem in what otherwise would be the perfect marriage. So she decides she has lost her sex appeal even though her husband disagrees, and she gets diet pills to solve the problem. She has a plan to save a troubled marriage while her husband insists there is no problem at all. The diet pills make her nervous, and a little edgy. Cranky may be a better word. She drops fifteen pounds in the first week and her husband tells her she looks like a drowned rat, and gives her a new nickname of raccoon. She goes to her mother, and her mother agrees with the husband. What happened to paradise she wonders.
One day her father comes to visit. This is not the first time, but he seems to have been busy lately and comes over very sparingly. He is too polite to tell his little girl that he can't stand the bum she married. He would rather die than break his daughters heart. She greets him with tears and raccoon eyes. Her sunken cheeks and bony arms tell the old man that her husband has her hooked on drugs. He asks what's wrong, and she goes into a long spiel about her inept abilities as a wife, and how she is giving up hope of ever being a mother. Her father cries too. Tears of joy at hearing she will not be having a baby with this buffoon she has married. Just then, hubby waltzes into the door carrying a bottle of wine for dinner. He has decided he should try to get his wife to eat better since she is losing all kinds of weight lately. He thinks the wine might calm her down a little since she has been a little edgy lately. All this was his mother's idea, and a good one too.
The father's lip curls as he sees his son-in-law enter the room. The husband's lip curls when he realizes his father-in-law has made his bride cry. The wife sees the bottle of wine an explodes in a flurry of obscenities about her husband's drinking habits lately. The divorce starts soon, and it all has to do with dietary influence. Consider the same story with perfect eating and drinking habits by all. Scary isn't it?
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