A man who wrote to the Guardian for a bit of advice is seemingly troubled to find that withholding sex from your wife after she doesn’t take your weight loss advice can and will backfire.Yes, as his story goes, this gentleman tried to encourage his wife to lose weight six years ago, after she gave birth to their child. But after she “ignored” his advice, as he wrote, he decided the best way to show her that ignoring him was the wrong choice was to stop having sex with her.Advertisement – Continue Reading BelowWell! What this fine man did not expect was for his genius plan to come back and bite him in the ass, years later. “I realise that my approach was not a good one and I have been making efforts for the past two years to go back to normal, but she is always running away,” he wrote.Now, as someone who isn’t exactly qualified to give advice, I could think of a ton of things to say to this dude! But what The Guardian‘s advice columnist suggested was that he just relax, be patient, and wait for his wife to get over the fact that he essentially used sex (or lack thereof) as a punishment measure. This is just good advice for all people in general. Don’t withhold sex if your partner doesn’t accept your fitness goals just after delivering a human life into this world.