> IME whenever I live with someone else my health gets worse. Yep, same here. > And of the few friends I've known well long enough to see them both single and

> IME whenever I live with someone else my health gets worse. Yep, same here. > And of the few friends I've known well long enough to see them both single and married, it's become quite apparent that they have a tendency to enable one another to do unhealthy things. I've said exactly this before, even in my current marriage (that we enable bad habits in each other). I might try to eat healthier, but she's having a bad day and wants to eat garbage, or I'm stressed at work and not caring as much and make bad decisions. She often wants things that I wouldn't bother getting on my own as well, like a daily Starbucks or late night ice cream, and while it's easy for me to not have that stuff if I don't go to those places, it's much harder for me to choose something healthy when I do go (like going to Oberweis and getting something for her and not me can be hard to do. I still don't about half the time, but the other half I'm like screw it and get something). And I try to eat healthier meals, like just make a salad for dinner or something, but when I do that I often still have to cook something since she only tolerates salads with a 'proper cooked meal', and then it's hard for me to spend an hour or more cooking something or picking up takeout for her and then not eat it also. It's a tradeoff that we've been on the wrong side of more often than I'd like, and I'm trying to get things back on track, but then something happens that throws it off course again inevitably. When I was by myself I don't remember it being anywhere near this difficult. Just buy some salad fixings and don't go out, just make that for lunch or whatever. Having to also work with someone else with different tastes (at least when it comes to healthy options) makes it much more difficult. It was also difficult when I was living with my parents also and trying to diet while they did their own thing, so it's not something that's exclusive to my wife or anything.