Her Husband Expressed That He Can No Longer Live With Their Dog, So Now She Is Actually Choosing The Pup Over Her Husband
Eight years ago, this woman was just dating her now-husband, and she bought their son a puppy. Their son was 5 or 6-years-old at the time.
When she did this, her then-boyfriend told her that he didn’t like pets and didn’t want to live in a house with pets. They weren’t yet living together.
During this time, her two children from a previous relationship, who are now adults and have since moved out, were living with her. She and all of her children adored the puppy from the beginning.
The puppy she bought for her son is a toy fox terrier.
“Besides a little ‘short man’s syndrome,’ he is a really good dog. He is trained to use the bathroom outside (he has had a few accidents when we forgot to let him out before bed). He does have some kind of medical condition the vet hasn’t been able to diagnose in which every few weeks, he will have an ‘episode’ where his body trembles and his back legs drag. It usually lasts for less than five minutes, and he recovers quickly,” she said.
Four or five years ago, she was in a difficult financial situation, so her then-boyfriend suggested that she move in with him, as well as her children and her dog.
She agreed, so she sold her house and moved in with her boyfriend.
Unfortunately, her boyfriend quickly started to get frustrated with the amount of shedding from the dog. Plus, he didn’t want the dog in the kitchen, but the dog constantly would run from the dining room into the kitchen.
To keep his house clean, she swept more regularly and gave the dog more frequent baths. Once she started doing this, her boyfriend seemed less annoyed with the dog, and he stopped whining.
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Later, the pandemic started.
In November 2020, she asked her boyfriend to give her Christmas gift ideas. In response, he told her that for Christmas, he wanted to marry her.
Less than a week after that, she married her now-husband in their garage while a judge officiated the ceremony via Zoom.
Once they were married, her husband was sometimes still bothered by the dog coming into the kitchen or shedding a lot of fur.
She acknowledged that the dog does shed a pretty significant amount, but any time her husband started complaining again, she would amp up the frequency of her sweeping.
Also, she was more attentive when the dog was trying to get into the kitchen. When he tried to do this, she made sure to tell him to leave, and he immediately obeyed. Her dog is well-trained and obeys commands all the time.
Tragically, in October 2021, her mother got very sick.
In December, her mother was put in hospice.
Then, her husband, their son, and her eldest son all contracted Covid.
Because of this, she had to bring her mother to her home and take care of her by herself.
“Although I am a nurse and trained to care for the ill, caring for my mom in her final days really took a toll on me. Although I got the dog for our son, I have always been the dog’s ‘person,’ and he has been my little buddy. After the passing of my mom, the dog was kind of a therapy dog of sorts. When I was curled up in bed with the covers over my head for days on end, the dog would somehow get me up and moving. I say all that to say I am now attached to the dog,” she explained.
Last year, she and her husband went through some difficult, tense times in their marriage, during which she took her dog and temporarily moved to her mother’s house.
In order to work through their issues, she and her husband attended couples therapy, went on dates, and had in-depth discussions.
Then, he pleaded with her to move back in, and she eventually agreed.
Her dog moved back to the house with her husband several weeks before she did.
Two months ago, she renovated her mother’s house so that she could rent it out.
Only two weeks after someone started renting her mother’s home, her husband said that he didn’t want the dog living with them anymore.
He said that they needed to rehome the dog, and he wasn’t willing to find a way to compromise.
She reached out to her older children, who had moved out, as well as some of her other family members, to see if anyone would be able to take in her dog. However, no one was able to.
“When I told our son, who is now 13, that we will have to ‘get rid’ of the dog, he was really sad and upset about it, but reluctant to tell his dad how he feels as he knows it will make no difference,” she shared.
Later, she tried talking to her husband about how much she and their son love the dog, and she would feel like a horrible person if she gave the dog away. She added that she doesn’t know what to do, and she doesn’t feel like any choice she could make would be an easy one.
Two nights ago, her husband repeated that he didn’t want the dog to live with them anymore and that he didn’t want any pets.
In response, she said that she then had no choice but to look for somewhere to rent so that she and the dog could move out.
Her husband was upset and claimed that she was “choosing the dog over him.”
But in her view, this was what felt right for her, so that her husband would now be living in the house without the dog.
While she doesn’t want to have to move out, she won’t leave her dog at an animal shelter.
She wonders if her husband timed things this way on purpose, waiting until she didn’t have anywhere else to go to try to force her to rehome the dog.
What would you have done if you were in her shoes?
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