Has WLS had NEGATIVE impact on anyone's relationships?

Well, now that I have a surgery date, I need to tell my mother (who in turn will tell my sister exactly five seconds after I tell my mom!).  I have been holding off telling my mother until I had been approved and had a surgery date because I am not sure she will be supportive.  My father and stepmother, friends and co-workers are all VERY supportive so I haven't really NEEDED the support of my mom up to this point, and I don't really NEED it now--but I also am really nervous that having the WLS will have a negative impact on my relationships with my mom and sister. I was wondering what negative impact WLS has had on others' relationships?

My dad had a problem with me having surgery. He initinally(sp??) thought I was having it to cosmeticly look better - aka be thinner. He just didn't realize just how unhealthy I had become and how being unhealthy had such an emotional impact on my mental health. He was under the old school thinking that I should just get up and exercise on my own free will. I couldn't get him to understand that I had an eating disorder that caused this and that part of the treatment was to learn to be sadiated when eating a meal and STOP over eating constantly and that was what my surgery was for. We just got to the point that talking about it was just not acceptable. I had surgery in Aug of 2005 just as he was diagnosised with Brain, liver, and lung cancer. I think when he died this past March he still wasn't acceptable of the surgery but was proud that I had changed my life style and was healthier. He just never understood why the choice had to be surgery. Then there was my personal relationship with my then boyfriend - but I've come to understand that that relationship was toxic to begin with and that my surgery had nothing to do with the ending of the relationship. There's just going to be people in your life that will just never understand no matter what and how you explain to them that overeating is a serious addiction (just like drug and alcohol addictions) and that wls is just a device, a tool, a means of consitient therapy to help you beat/win this addiction. WLS is just a small part of the change you have to make in your life to be successful and not the only and final solution and people just don't seem to understand that. Just like people can't/don't understand why alcoholics just won't stop drinking. Or drug users just won't stop using. A lot of people will never understand why we can't stop over eating nor why food never sadiates(sp?) us. Even more frustrating is other obese people that will verbally knock you down for your choice. You just have to have the mind set that you did what you had to do to get your life back. You made a selfish choice to beat an addiction and live longer. There is nothing wrong with that at all. Just understand that some people will just never get it no matter how you explain it to them. So - let what negative things they say just roll off your shoulders and be proud of yourself for being stronger then your disease. Good Luck Jodi