There are some pet owners who love their pets more than anything, to the point where they’d choose their beloved pet above all else, as one man on Reddit did when he chose his dog over his fiancée.
He received a bit of criticism for his choice, so he posted about the situation and asked for others’ perspectives about whether or not he made the right choice .
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The post begins with an introduction.
He and his fiancée are close in age, 28 and 27 respectively, have been dating for four years and engaged for six months. He has a seven-year-old lab mix “who is the greatest dog in existence.”
The fiancée recently had her bachelorette party, which is where this all went down.
The party was going to consist of her and her friends at their home.
The husband was fine with this, staying at his parents’ place and leaving the dog at home as he said his fiancée liked having him there. Though, he had a condition. “I made sure to tell her to put the dog in our bedroom once the party gets going.”
Things appear to be going well for most of the night.
Cut to 5 AM the night of the party, and our author receives a panicked phone call from his bride-to-be saying something is wrong with the dog.
She’s drunk, so the author tells her to get a cab and get him to the emergency vet while he drives there to meet up with them.
He leaves immediately and arrives at the vet after his wife.
“When I got there, she looked like she hadn’t stopped crying for hours and she couldn’t even speak. Two of her friends were there so they told me my dog is alive but not well. I felt sorry for her for an entire 10 minutes while waiting for the doctor.”
Then he found out what happened.
“[…] the doctor told me my dog ingested large amounts of alcohol and chocolate edibles. The girls apparently thought it would be cool to leave everything out on short coffee tables, leave the dog to wander around instead of putting him in our bedroom, and then get wasted and not notice he was going to town with the booze and edibles.”
“When we got home, I told my [fiancée] to pack and get out of my house and my life.”
“I told her to tell her guests the wedding is off, and I’ll tell mine. She was shocked, but she took her things and left.”
Two hours later, his phone was flooded with messages from her family about the situation.
“They started off defending her, but it quickly turned into insulting me.”
Both his fiancée’s family and his own agree that he was being rash, but he doesn’t see it. He closed his post with, “I’m 99% sure I will stand by my decision. But am I really an asshole? Literally nobody is on my side and I have no idea what to think.”
The answers were rather mixed.
There were those who thought he overreacted, those he thought were in the right, and those who believed that everyone was being terrible.
The final verdict was that everyone sucked, but you get to have your own judgement.
A lot of people did agree with him.
“That level of carelessness could lead to death. What would people say if she had done the same thing with a kid around? It’s pretty obvious how you feel, getting out now seems like a better option than having this fester until the divorce.”
Other pet owners leveled with him.
“I have a cat whom I adore beyond reason and if my current BF accidentally hurt him, I’d be pissed and upset but your dog isn’t dead. If he’s more important than your woman, that relationship is doomed. I’ve been in a relationship where I would have chosen my cat over them. That is not a good relationship,” someone answered.
Some people started suggesting that maybe this is a pattern of behavior.
Or that this scenario solidified some traits that he subconsciously found undesirable in his fiancée. “[…] reading through your replies to most people it seems you’ve got a lot of issues with your [partner’s] behaviour […] I hazard a guess that if everything you’ve listed has been getting to you over time, that the marriage would not have lasted long after that.”
The author realized he agreed.
He provided an update to the post.
“Posting here kind of triggered me to conclude this isn’t about the dog at all. She is negligent and irresponsible and I don’t want to stick around and possibly see our child die in a car accident some day because she was texting or she forgot to put his seat belt on. I’d rather be an asshole now than spend years of my life worrying every time our child is left alone with her.”
Brutal as it may be, he does have a point, and it is better to end things now than risk it later!
