The correct answer is, "No, dear. It's those 40 extra pounds you're lugging around that make you look fat." The safe, though equivocal answer is "Of course not." The accommodating answer is, "You're the most beautiful woman in the world. Why would you worry about something as trivial as that." The stupid answer is, "Not as much as the one you wore to lunch last Sunday with my parents." Stop me when you've had enough. |
My ex-husband's customary answer was something like your first reply!
I guess that we women tend to ask the wrong question. A better question might be, "On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being not-at-all and 10 being like-magic, how well does this outfit hide my fat!
That would more likely give us the information that we are really wanting, eh?