For context, I was a chubby kid but a fit young adult, and a mildly thicc adult for most of my life, but recently i've gained over 40 lbs in the past 3 years, making me the heaviest i've ever been. It's happy weight, I moved in with my now wife, and have been eating deliciously at home and drinking often with our friend group on weekly hangouts. Work is stressful and I travel a fair bit for it, so keeping up with exercise has been backburnered for a while.
I visited my extended family for the first time since the pandemic this past holiday. I expected jokes and teasing, I expected surprised reactions after hugs, I expected concerns over long term health from the kinder hearted folks. There was a bit of that but not much... instead I got multiple Aunts/Uncles and even 1 cousin greeted me with nothing but some variant of "Fatty or Fatso" in our native language. Not "hey fatty, how are you doing?" just "fatty" Not "hey man, looking a little heavy, packing down the snack haha" just "Fatty".
What the actual fuck.
Glad being raised in this family means I can rebuild the walls around me at a moment's notice. Not to mention the years of my wife's sensitive gentle care breaking down those walls. I feel like an angry teenager again.
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