The Weight Of Love

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Your stories about how navigating weight and body size inside a relationship has sometimes made your partnerships stronger...and sometimes broken them apart.

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0:00.0	I thought all the time about, you know, am I gonna be the first fat person that this person's ever had sex with?
0:06.3	And a lot of the times I think I was.
0:11.8	This is Death, Sex, and Money.
0:14.3	I've been trying to date and I'm like not on the skinny side.
0:18.3	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:22.3	Our mojo just mixes and that has remained true as our bodies have shifted.
0:27.3	And need to talk about more, I'm in a sale.
0:32.3	A listener named Fitz Rush lives in the Bay Area.
0:35.3	In the past year and a half, he has fallen hard for a woman in Columbia.
0:40.3	Her name is Gia.
0:41.8	She's nicknamed me her flaco.
0:43.8	Flaco means thin, right?
0:46.8	Like the thin man.
0:47.8	Always makes me laugh, yeah, because they're just, you know,
0:51.8	that's not who I see in the mirror when I look.
0:53.8	So I first talked with Fitz six years ago for an episode that we did about infidelity.
0:59.8	Back then, he told me he had dated several women who were cheating on their partners with him.
1:05.3	And he described himself as overweight.
1:07.8	Fitz went by Joe in our cheating episode, but he wanted to go by his real name this time.
1:13.8	I'm, I'm public now.
1:15.3	You're public now, so I will call you Fitz.
1:17.8	So I will call you by your real name.
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