I was thinking the same thing,I guess as much as some partners / family / friends may support your desire to change your life it forces some to change the way they see YOU and that's hard when your overweight your inafect ' invisible ' but not ' invisible ' if you get my drift but once you start changing people start to notice and that wakes up the family/ friends / partner to the new you and it either let's them see the new confident happy smaller you or they see you changing and they haven't