Hi everyone
I'd really welcome any advice.
DH and I are divorcing. I'm divorcing him based on unreasonable behaviour.
One of the upsetting things I'm trying to deal with is what to do about our dog. We have a five year old doggie and I obviously love her very much.
DH is self employed and works from home so is with the dog all day but, he is quite irresponsible and regularly misses days of walks etc and he smoke a lot of weed which means he sleep a lot at weekends etc so the dog is left on her own if I'm not there.
But on the flip side the dog adores him.
I work long hours full time. But I would love to have the dog after we stop living together. This would mean though that I would have to hire a dog walker or put the dog in doggy day care which is going to be expensive. Plus on a selfish note a dog would be a massive tie as I try to move on with my life if I want to, for example, go away for an evening/weekend. I feel selfish even typing that.
Part of me thinks the dog would be happier with DH as he works from home but, after the divorce we have no idea where DH will live or whether it would be suitable for the dog. He said something really hurtful when we discussed the dog and he said if he had her he "hoped he wouldn't have to sell her". I couldn't believe he would even consider it!
I'm just curios about whether anyone else had this issue and what you decided. Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks
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NextChapter2019 · 25/02/2019 14:50
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