The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

When Grok lives with Corg and how to cope with an unsupportive partner.

When I introduced a forum thread asking folks to share their top three challenges and going primal,

one issue got major traction, the S-O-Factor, significant other for those of you who are not into the whole online brevity thing.

It's a familiar story.

One partner takes on a new health commitment.

Life changes for that person.

He or she goes through struggles, triumphs, growth,

an entire physical and psychological process

that potentially leaves a relationship chasm in its wake.

Then there are the logistics,

a menacing obstacle course of loaded questions and irksome details. Do we still eat together?

Who cooks? Not to mention shops. Do we have enough pots and pans to make two different meals each night? How do we handle the kids' food?

Finally, what does it mean for the arrangement when one person's food expenditure overshadows the

others? I'm not talking, of course, about couples who follow individual but similar lifestyle paths.

Few people have a fully primal SO, and most people don't exactly consider that a deal

breaker to begin with. As many of you noted in the forum, it's good to honor individuality in

relationships. It certainly keeps things interesting. My wife, for example, eats fish but not fowl or red meat.

While I'd prefer she'd join me in devouring a rack of lamb now and then,

I understand and even empathize with her reasoning.

I also recognize that she's one of the healthiest people I know.

She merges the primal philosophy with her own chosen values,

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