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Is it ok for my dog to mean more to me that my partner of 10 months?!

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Bellalongstone · 06/10/2014 12:18

Might sound like a silly question, but I am a 55 year old woman with three fabulous grown up kids. Two have left home but my 23 year old lad who is on the autisitc spectrum still lives with me. I have been seeing this partner for 10 months-he never had children and has elderly parents who depend on him a great deal. Infact, he sold his house as he wanted them to move in with him so he could keep an eye on them but they have changed their minds so he has bought a decent motorhome to live in. Whilst it was initially quite fun "camping", he never seems to want to stay at my (lovely, clean, warm, comfortable Victorian villa) house overnight, meaning I go to him but he will not allow my springer spaniel who is very dear to me come into the motorhome. If my son is out all night, I will not leave the dog alone so on Saturday night, I took her with me to the campsite and made a bed up for her in the car. I woke up at 2am feeling very guilty as I sensed the temperature outside has plummeted (was only 3 degrees) so I told him I was going and took the dog home for the rest of the night. He has been openly sulking since and very textually cold.

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DogsinBoots · 07/10/2014 16:15

I couldn't have a relationship with anyone who didn't understand how much I love my dog.
He sounds a bit childish, I would dump him.

mynewusername · 07/10/2014 16:37

Dog comes first. HTH

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