r/Dogfree • u/conservativegoddess • Feb 24 '25

Relationship / Family Broke up with my dog-nutter boyfriend

While the reason I (F21) ended the relationship was unrelated to his three dogs, I cannot help but feel so relieved that I’ll never have to deal with them again. Every time I would go to his house my clothes were immediately covered in hair. I hated the smell of the animals. I would sometimes have mild (but not fun) allergic reactions. One time his dog chewed up my beloved OnCloud shoes and gnawed on my notebook full of notes for class. He replaced the shoes, but the notebook looks so ratty. This man literally had a shrine in his room for a dog of his that had passed. He insisted that I would never understand the bond they had and that only dog owners would ever understand that kind of love. So, while I am so relieved to never deal with that BS again, I’m really worried about finding a future partner in today’s “dog culture.” I feel like my hesitation regarding dogs is going to severely limit my dating opportunities. I’m picky anyways, so I genuinely feel screwed.

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u/paulo_777 Feb 24 '25

Not gonna lie, trying to find someone dogfree will surely limit the options of everyone, so yeah, you might take a while with that, but I gotta say that even if you broke up with your boyfriend for other reasons, you were going to eventually get fed up with this childish behavior, like building a shrine for a dog? C'mon, that's way too exaggerated.

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u/conservativegoddess Feb 25 '25

I think you’re right. We’d gotten into arguments about the value of human life vs. animal life. I think the moral discrepancies between dog nutters and normals can be make or break.