How Diet Affects Our Relationship · Dlf Nova

What’s for dinner tonight? This question can cause a lot of controversy in the partnership. Because when it comes to food, compromises are often difficult. How we cope with it and how food can inspire a relationship – that’s what this 21+ is about.

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“I could really eat bread and rolls,” says Nils. “That makes me totally angry,” contradicts his wife Laura. The couple have very different ideas about what a good lunch should look like. That’s why there are regular arguments, as Laura and Nils tell.

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Cooking together as a couple is a creative, sensual act that can also be sexually charged, says couples therapist Eric Hegmann. If the food preferences differ greatly, however, it can become a burden for the couple. In the podcast, the relationship coach gives tips in the event that we have completely different eating habits in the relationship and that leads to an argument.

Fun facts about food and relationships

• According to Study on behalf of the dating portal Elitepartner 13 percent of couples often quarrel over diet and eating habits.
• At the same time, couples who often cook together have more sex, like that another study by the dating portal: 68 percent of the couples surveyed who have sex several times a week said that cooking was an important part of their partnership. Of those who had sex less than once a month, cooking was only important for 46 percent of those surveyed.
• When couples move in together, they gain weight. That confirms one Investigation of German researcherswho looked at the relationship between relationship status and weight. The scientists conclude from this that weight gain is related to a positive change in the relationship, because eating habits then also change. When couples break up and pull apart, people lose weight again.

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