Originally Posted by wookie  Your DH does sound irritating to me and I do hope he comes around. It might take awhile. How long has he been this way?
As for my story, my hubby had never had a dog, his family had never had a dog and also views it as the dog is "owned" by the people. Then one day we went jogging and we came to this dog park and saw a little cute yorkie jumping up and down a bench kissing its mommy. I told my hubby I want one of those! He totally said NO!
Like I'm going to listen to him.
Then I went on a crusade looking for a yorkie, I found my Wookie. Went to the breeder without DH, then came home and told him I'm getting Wookie. No matter how much he kicked and screamed I didn't care, I was in love. So he relentlessly went with me to pick Wookie up. In the car ride home, I was already training Wookie, "I'm Mommy and that's Daddy" hubby heard me say that and said "no, I'm not daddy, I don't want to be attached". Well I said that's too bad. I told him that this dog is going to be part of our life, he will live with us, sleep with us, we will feed him, clean him, shelter him, and he will be part of our family (we have no kids), he will be like a kid to us. He didn't say anything else during the car ride home. That was in 2005.
Now, he can't sleep without Wookie between us. He's constantly looking for Wookie when he goes to bed. Wookie showed him loyalty, compassion, understanding, and love. While he was going to school and would come home late, Wookie would stay out in the living room to wait for him no matter what. When he's in the computer doing some programming, Wookie would wait for him and just stay with him all night if he had too. DH saw this and I made him understand. I made his whole family understand. We can't leave the dogs in the house, if we are going to his parents house, we bring all of them with us. His parents saw how much I love my dogs, the way I talk with them and take care of them. Now everyone has turned a 360 when it came to dogs. Now when we go to his parents house, his parents are always looking for our dogs. His parents even gave them money last Christmas, each one had a "Christmas envelope in their tree with each of their names on it".
Wookie changed our lives for the better, we get along better, DH even pointed out the other day that our dogs are teaching us to be better parents. When we argue, all our dogs looks so sad and always wants to hug us, perhaps to stop. They teach us to be better people so I do hope your DH can understand this too. |