I’m Shigeru, and I live with my wife, Mitsuki, and our two kids: our eldest daughter, Yuna (7th grade), and our eldest son, Itsuki (4th grade). When we first got married, Mitsuki had a job too. But my work was busy and unpredictable, so when our daughter was born, we split the responsibilities—I would earn the income, and Mitsuki would take care of the home and kids. The children grew up healthy and strong, and I was nothing but grateful to her. …Or at least, I was supposed to be. But as Mitsuki grew bigger and bigger with each passing year, I felt myself drifting further and further away from her…
Mitsuki really wasn’t heavy to begin with. Her parents aren’t overweight in the slightest, either.
So for Mitsuki to gain this much weight, I know how grueling it must be to carry and raise children.
Still, looking at it from a health standpoint, being this overweight just isn’t good.
Yet Mitsuki didn’t care about her weight at all—she just kept packing on the pounds.
I didn’t expect her to lose it overnight, but I wanted her to take her health more seriously, so I tried suggesting different things. As it turned out, though, Mitsuki didn’t even see a reason to lose weight in the first place.