Over the holidays I went to visit my family. My youngest brother and his wife have two children and one on the way. It appears my brother is putting on "sympathy weight" because he was joking around and pushing out his stomach making it look even bigger than it is. I asked the six-year-old, "Who’s having the baby – your mom or your dad?" She said, "My daddy’s having a food baby." And I’ll stop this part of the story here because it could go off into so many wrong directions.
But there really is such a thing as "sympathy weight". It says so on the internet so it must be true, right? Maybe all the raging hormones of the female make the male want to eat to stuff down his feelings before he explodes (now you know how we feel, guys). So I offer this up to all men, if your wife, girlfriend, life partner, whatever is going through menopause it’s very much like the mood swings that go with pregnancy except there’s no miracle of birth at the end. I guess you just keep eating and eating until you die.
