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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If everybody else in your family wants a dog then you would be selfish if they all had to go without a dog just because of you.[/quote]

OP here and I suppose you’re right, but the more I think about this, the more I’m okay with that. I have been unselfish enough. I put my career on hold for DH, I spend hours and hours a day homeschooling because my kid was having a hard time in regular school, I make dinners that I don’t want and clean way more than I would like to because I’m a SAHM and that’s my job, I try to do every little thing my favorite parenting books tell me to do, I budget carefully (and drive a lot) so the kids can do the extracurriculars they love, I help my other kid a lot with school because of her massive executive function issues, etc. I rarely do anything for myself because the life I signed up for makes that hard. And I am so happy to do all of this, I really love it, but I am okay with denying them something they want when I’m pretty sure it would bring a good amount of misery into my life. [/quote]

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