Lisa Miller

People on these medications frequently lose their appetite for alcohol, so much so that researchers are investigating whether GLP-1s are a good treatment for alcohol abuse, addiction, other kinds of compulsive behaviors.

And for Jean, the loss of appetite just changed her whole approach to having fun with her husband.

I mean, no longer could they sit on the couch and uncork a bottle of wine at the end of the day or go to the local brew pub and try out the new beer.

None of it felt good to her anymore.

That's fine.

Yeah.

But it was also just that her, like, appetite for that kind of life, where you're going out and you're hanging with friends and you're staying up late and everybody's drinking, those appetites, they had limits as well.

In fact, she had an introverted side that hadn't been able to express herself because she was so busy being a pleaser extrovert because she was in a bigger body and she wanted people to like her.

Once she was in a smaller body, she could assert herself and say, like, actually, I like being at home.

But she's also telling Javier she doesn't want to do the things that he thought that she loved.

And that they loved together.

They loved together, right.

That was like the fabric of the fun that they had always had together.

How does he respond to all this?

He does not like it.

More than tension.

I mean, I think they had a really, really, really hard time.

And when I met them, they were fighting a lot.

And their fights could be loud and ugly.

You know, Javier said to me, you know, we go from zero to 60 in, like, seconds.