I feel everyone's pain. I had my first gf very late, due to a combination of being shy and introverted and not knowing many fat women. She knew I loved her size and she never even hinted at not liking being big. 2 years into our relationship, out of the blue she told me that she was getting lap band surgery a few weeks later. I felt defeated and betrayed. Here I was, after many years of waiting, I finally had my big gf and now she was getting a lapband, which was a hype at that moment. In the end, she did not loose a lot of weight, because she was constantly trying to cheat on her lapband. At hindsight, I should have suspected that she did not like being big, because she never told me how much she weighted, not before and not after the surgery and she never let me touch her belly. My 2nd gf told me on our 2nd or 3rd date that she was getting WLS a few weeks later. I told her that was very difficult for me, because I am totally not attracted to normal sized women, so that we could not be together, but it was already too late, she was a nice person and looked nice and I was already in love. We got together, and luckily for me, she did not loose a lot of weight and stayed above 250 lbs.
The woman I have now been together with for more than 10 years made it very clear that she would never get WLS. As a doctor, she had seen how wrong that could go, so that was such a relief. She know that I like her big, but she also open that she would like to loose some. After the birth of our children, I could tell that she gained quite a lot of weight, but I never dared to suggest to weigh herself, because I knew the result would set her off to start loosing, so I quitely enjoyed what I had. At some point, the unavoidable came and she started on a weigtloss journey and lost from her high of 330 down to 260. I was not too concerned, because she was dong it by herself and genetics are against her, so eventually she regained to 300. Now she is loosing again. I support her to do it on her own, because now with the GLP-1's, the game has changed. So far, she has mainly been trying to find excuses not to jump on the GLP-1 train, because side effects and you need to be on it life long. She tells stories about how people she knows are so sick on them and then gain everything back when they stop due to side effects. But contrary to the WLS, she has not said that she will never take GLP-1s. She mentions them every now and then. I think she is waitng to see how it evolves and my concern is that she will start on them anyway, wehn she did not loose enough weight to her liking and the weight loss is stalling. So I am hoping that she can stay away from the GLP-1s and will stop at a point that is high enough for me, and low enough for her.
With regards to everyone who shared their story above: I hope that you can learn to love what is left of whatever highest weight your women were. At least you have the memories of your wife being 385, 450 or even 600. I have come to terms that I will never experience the joys of a woman with a big hanging belly . It would be my ultimate dream of being with a woman the size of yours, but I am glad that I can already get off on a lower weight. If 400+lbs is the only thing that gets you going, it must be hard to see your women rapidly going below that.