When Your Partner Loses Weight (And You Didn't): A Relationship Guide

Your partner lost the weight. You didn't. And no one is talking about how that feels.

When one person in a relationship transforms and the other does not, something shifts that has nothing to do with the number on the scale. When Your Partner Loses Weight (And You Didn't) is the one book in the series written not for the person who changed, but for the partner who did not.

Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst Konrad van Staden uncovers the unconscious contract you did not know you signed, grants permission to be in difficulty, and looks honestly at what the heavier body was doing in the room, the loss of a shared world, the unwelcome mirror, and the difference between envy and jealousy. He shows how desire is recalibrated, why your partner is not the villain of the story, and how a couple can find a new contract, including what it means when the couple does not survive.

This is a book that gives language and dignity to a position that is usually silenced.

For the partner left standing on the other side of someone else's transformation.

Book Eleven of The Psychology of Weight Loss Series.