To live in one place for 15 years as an adult woman with no prospects for a date, much less a husband or serious boyfriend, is a very long time. I am trying my best to move from Atlanta just so I can get dates and try to have a love life. Hopefully it’s not too late for me.

To be perfectly clear people don’t have to dress a certain way because your dog humps or sniffs nor do they have to wear certain attire. Any well behaved dog does not require such a controlling element. You alone need to take care of your dog’s behaviour when it transgresses what are normal boundaries that people have and not have people perform acts to satisfy your dog’s needs. If I don’t want your dog sniffing or jumping on me, that is well within my right as an autonomous human to have this. How weird that you suggest otherwise. Offering to dog sit? Are you joking? You take on a job as a person who wants to possess another life (which in and of itself is an odd concept)–you deal with it. If people are dating you, it is presumptive to assume they must somehow take part in your responsibilities. Dogs are not people but they must respect people and part of this training whether or not you like it, involves respecting what your date needs. If your date does not want to deal with your needs to have a dog in tow for everything to include doing all the outdoor things you want to do, you need to compromise. It is perfectly remarkable how you assume the responsibility of this animal lies anywhere near the dog owner’s date. It does not. You have to realise that other people not owning dogs does not implicate them in owning one just because they date you. That would be like me asking you to pay half the mortgage on my home or dumping my kids on you. You really need to understand that the world does not revolve around you…or your dog.