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Topic: My dog can't drive
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Afraid2LoveAgain
♀ 11185
Member # 11185 |  Posted: 5:58 AM, November 2nd (Saturday), 2013 |     |
Do I think that I could teach her to drive if I worked really hard at it? Maybe if that's all I focused on day and night. And if I had an unlimited supply of peanuts. If I watched her every move, never once letting my attention be diverted.
AfraidPup is smart. She loves to please. So, yes, she might learn to drive. But she would never be a safe driver. It is not in her nature. I would never feel safe riding in the passenger seat. I would not want to travel the world with a dog chauffeur.
Maybe our lives would be better spent not focused on trying to teach dogs to drive.
BW -- 58
Divorced 2001
Re-married 2014--on what would have been our 35th anniversary
Posts: 507 | Registered: Jul 2006 | From: NC |
cayc
♀ 21964
Member # 21964 | | Posted: 7:28 AM, November 2nd (Saturday), 2013 | |
Hah! I like the analogy.
But idk. My dog is as smart as he's going to get, and yet he's still this little furry ball of emotion that pays attention to my needs, pays attention to my mood, and does what he can to keep us both happy. My xWH who had the intellectual capacity to learn but *wilfully* chose not to, could not even manage to do that.
Which is the difference. Your dog *wants* to learn and please you and be a part of your life even if he doesn't have the intellectual capacity to change a damn thing. In contrast, WSs have the intellectual capacity but ....
Posts: 3446 | Registered: Dec 2008 | From: Mexico |
Afraid2LoveAgain
♀ 11185
Member # 11185 | | Posted: 7:38 AM, November 2nd (Saturday), 2013 | |
Intellectual capacity, yes!
Emotional capacity--probably not.
:)
BW -- 58
Divorced 2001
Re-married 2014--on what would have been our 35th anniversary
Posts: 507 | Registered: Jul 2006 | From: NC |
waiting2see
♀ 13767
Member # 13767 | | Posted: 7:56 AM, November 2nd (Saturday), 2013 | |
Fwiw. I would let my dog drive my car before I would trust XWS with my heart again.
me: BS
him: XWS
Someone I love once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. --Mary Oliver
Posts: 2062 | Registered: Feb 2007 |
Afraid2LoveAgain
♀ 11185
Member # 11185 | | Posted: 8:26 AM, November 2nd (Saturday), 2013 | |
BW -- 58
Divorced 2001
Re-married 2014--on what would have been our 35th anniversary
Posts: 507 | Registered: Jul 2006 | From: NC |
SisterMilkshake
♀ 30024
Member # 30024 | | Posted: 8:32 AM, November 2nd (Saturday), 2013 | |
I agree, Afraid. The dog needs to teach themselves how to drive. Not our job. However, I don't feel the dog would be able to teach themselves.
Unlike people who can take control of themselves and learn.
BW (me) & FWH both over half a century; married several decades; children
d-day 3/10; LTA
"Oh, why do my actions have consequences?" ~ Homer Simpson
"She knew my one weakness: That I'm weak." ~ Homer Simpson
Posts: 12413 | Registered: Nov 2010 | From: The Great White North USA |
SoVerySadNow
♀ 36711
Member # 36711 | | Posted: 8:52 AM, November 2nd (Saturday), 2013 | |
I'm more likely to let my dog drive my car than to trust WH ever again. I might trust with verification at some point but is that trust?
Me:BW
Him:WH
D-day(s),after years of TT and Gaslighting was Labor Day Weekend 2012, continuing for a week after. *Dammit! More TT 3/9/13
Really trending toward D- planning about it is my "happy place" now.
Posts: 1292 | Registered: Sep 2012 | From: Sunny Florida |
Chippednotbroken
♀ 40170
Member # 40170 | | Posted: 9:07 AM, November 2nd (Saturday), 2013 | |
Yeah...
Me 34 (former BS)
Happily Divorced November 17, 2014.
3 young kids all under 9.
"I'm sorry you don't like my honesty. But to be fair, I don't like your lies."
Posts: 587 | Registered: Aug 2013 |
stongmomof3
♀ 41158
Member # 41158 | | Posted: 3:31 PM, November 4th (Monday), 2013 | |
This made me truly LOL. Thanks.
Fwiw I feel more comfortable with my dog driving than WH .
Me 34 BS
Him 44 WS
3 EA, 1 PA each lasting over 7 months concurrently.
Are we in R? who the hell knows.
Posts: 61 | Registered: Oct 2013 |
Nature_Girl
♀ 32554
Member # 32554 | | Posted: 3:34 PM, November 4th (Monday), 2013 | |
Waiting, you made me LOL!!! 
Me = BS
Him = EX-d out (abusive troglodyte NPD SA)
3 tween-aged kids
Together 20 years
D-Day: Memorial Weekend 2011
2013 - DIVORCED!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJgjyDFfJuU
Posts: 10722 | Registered: Jun 2011 | From: USA |
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