The skinny on relationships mixed-weight relationships
The image of thin Jack Sprat and his rather cuddlier wife — he could eat no fat, while she could eat no lean — has been around for generations. But in the increasingly sensitive modern world, few couples would enjoy being compared to the pair from the nursery rhyme. A new term is now being used to celebrate partners of different sizes: ‘mixed-weight’. Embraced with pride by couples who pose on social media alongside the hashtag #mixedweight, the phrase is meant to remove any embarrasment around size disparity in a loving relationship. But critics have claimed the term is just the late...