As much as a person can be lazy about the exhaustion of working out, once he starts to feel a difference—and we all become impressed by the changes in his body, his biceps and triceps—that’s it. A bond happens, and a sacred relationship is formed between the man and the gym.

As proud as the woman in your life may be of the change and the sudden attention to your appearance, unfortunately for some women the gym turns into a “second wife” they get jealous of, for two reasons:

Either she herself wants to go like you do, but staying with the kids or the mess of work doesn’t give her the chance, so she’ll say “why you and not me?”, or she’s lazy and your effort exhausts her. And since we want to help you, here are some signs you should watch out for before she turns you against the gym.

She suggests any kind of outing

Have you ever noticed that every time you’re about to head to the gym, your girlfriend tries to tempt you with some random outing? Suddenly, that intimacy you haven’t seen since the 90s comes back to life. By coincidence, your mom called her and wants to go out and get to know her better. Or that movie that’s been in the cinema for a month is about to be removed if you don’t watch it right now… and so on. All of this, sir, is nothing but tricks to make you lazy like us and not go anywhere—because you going to the gym is nothing but a guilty conscience for us.

She makes food and laziness look good in your eyes

The girl you love might have been on a diet for six years, but the moment she feels that you’re going to care about your body, food suddenly looks delicious in her eyes—and yours. Sometimes she’ll tell you, “What is it, baby, aren’t you tired? Rest today. No need for the gym. You work so hard.” Look, she’s definitely caring about you and your fatigue, but there’s a big chance she just can’t face her own shortcomings with sports through you anymore.

She starts complaining about the wasted time at the gym

“You’re leaving me with the kids and spending all your time at the gym.”
“You’re always wanting to sleep because you’re tired from the gym.”
“Why are we wasting the weekend while you’re sitting in the gym?”
“Of course we fight because you don’t go out with me anywhere and you’re at the gym day and night.”

And you actually go once a week for half an hour. She’ll keep doing this until you end up hating exercise, muscles, and protein.

She makes you feel like your effort isn’t paying off

Don’t even think about asking her whether you’ve lost weight or your muscles are showing, because the answer will always be no.

So which sentence from these do you hear the most from your life partner?