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Anonymous wrote:When your dating vetting process places more weight on a potential partner's enthusiasm for belly rubs and bagged feces than life goals or child-rearing values, beware arrested development dead ahead!

Anyone who would ask someone to get rid of their pet would make a terrible parent.

agreed

Anonymous wrote:When your dating vetting process places more weight on a potential partner's enthusiasm for belly rubs and bagged feces than life goals or child-rearing values, beware arrested development dead ahead!

Anyone who would ask someone to get rid of their pet would make a terrible parent.

When your dating vetting process places more weight on a potential partner's enthusiasm for belly rubs and bagged feces than life goals or child-rearing values, beware arrested development dead ahead!

I dated a woman with a dog and it drove me nuts. Everything we did centered around the dog and the dogs schedule. I will skip the litany of examples. I even offered to pay for a dog sitter so we could have an evening where she didn’t need to rush home to walk the dog but she refused the offer because her dog would be unhappy. I’ve dated single mothers who weren’t as crazed about their kids as this woman was about her dog. I love dogs and I now have one but this was obsessive.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who the eff would make their partner give up a beloved pet for no good reason? There’s something wrong with you, OP

Sounds like a sociopath or a narcisisst.

Yes. I know two women who were involved with sociopaths like this guy. One of the losers told her to get rid of her cat and beat her up when she broke up with him. The other guy dumped her kittens out in the country while she was at work, and he ended up having a psychotic break.

She's dodged a nuclear missile by breaking up with you.

At a minimum she dodged a slow, sort of pudgy bullet.

I was so ready to agree with you based on the title, (dogs are pets, not people. Get them out of my goddamn grocery store) then I read your awful, self-centered post. A German shepherd is going to live, on average, 10-11 years. You didn't love her enough to put up with her dog for a fraction of the time you'll be together in an ideal world. So she got lucky. You might have even grown to like the dog! GSs are usually good dogs.

You're every bit as bad as the woman having vapors over whether to marry a man who "only" makes $160k. You're both so fixated on superficiality you are probably incapable of genuine love, which is often inconvenient, but almost always worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a guy and nobody has ever accused me of being an emotional person...but I cried like a baby when our dog died. To those of us with dogs, they are family.

Now you sound like a keeper.

+1

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What kind of a psycho would tell someone they are dating to get rid of their animal? Whats wrong with you?

If you dont like dogs/animals, dont date people with dogs/animals.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a guy and nobody has ever accused me of being an emotional person...but I cried like a baby when our dog died. To those of us with dogs, they are family.

Now you sound like a keeper.

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Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

While I don't agree with everything in this post I definitely sign on to the Tired of "Dog Moms" sentiment. It's cringe. Just stop.

Nothing beats a woman pushing a dog stroller. We’re officially losing it as a society.

People push dogs in strollers when they're old or injured or very small/young. Dogs still want and need to go outside.

If you don’t like pets don’t date someone with pets. It’s that simple.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

While I don't agree with everything in this post I definitely sign on to the Tired of "Dog Moms" sentiment. It's cringe. Just stop.

Nothing beats a woman pushing a dog stroller. We’re officially losing it as a society.

DP. True. But not really what the initial post is about. It's about how OP is (a) controlling and (b) jealous of a pet and (c) blaming a pet for what are so clearly much larger issues in the relationship and in himself. Got it now?

Funny how several posts suddenly turned up, in a row, going off on the "dog mom" stuff as if that's really the gist of the OP's post. Either the dimmer posters showed up all at the same time or someone's here to try to divert attention from the OP's self-centeredness and control issues....

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Anonymous wrote:Who the eff would make their partner give up a beloved pet for no good reason? There’s something wrong with you, OP

Sounds like a sociopath or a narcisisst.

Yes. I know two women who were involved with sociopaths like this guy. One of the losers told her to get rid of her cat and beat her up when she broke up with him. The other guy dumped her kittens out in the country while she was at work, and he ended up having a psychotic break.

She's dodged a nuclear missile by breaking up with you.

Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

Sounds like she dodged a bullet.

Anonymous wrote:Attention to single women in their 30s:

Dogs are not children. Having a dog does not make you a mother. Being obsessed with your fur baby is not giving maternal instincts, it's giving arrested development. I am not interested in women who make their dog the center of their universe.

I (M, 40) was dating a woman (35) who said that she and her German Shepherd are a "package deal" when we were getting serious and thinking about moving in together. I said she had to choose between me and the dog, and she chose the dog. Now she's late 30s and childless but with a giant, smelly canine.

Women, rethink your priorities if this sounds like you.

Every man I know who has a dog would dump a woman who’d make him choose.

This has nothing to do with some dog owners being annoying. Youre just a shitty person.