Your view is possible. I like it better than mine.  Here's what I thought: Husband is a classic beta pigfucker. Skinnyfat. His wife's dimpled, jiggly rolls drive him wild. Her fatstink, disagreeable at first, is ever-present. He doesn't notice it much anymore, but R certainly does. R is fit and responsible. Husband admires R. When R insults his wife, he knows deep down that R is right. He will never admit to R that he's really into fatties. He doesn't want R to know how mentally fucked he really is. But he is also too scared to confront R because he knows he would be unable to counter even a single point R could make.  So he just pretends not to hear anything. Problem solved! I also thought that the husband likes when R insults fatties because he wants his fat pig of a wife to lose some fucking weight, but he's too afraid to be honest with her. But that doesn't make as much sense, because she claims he is supportive of her fat ass in private. He could be lying, but what normal guy would do that?  One thing is for sure, this fat bitch will keep getting fatter and R will eventually lose all respect for his pigfucking friend.