Woman With Sensory Issues Chooses Not To Touch Her Husband's Dog, Husband Says Her Actions Are Mean

"I wasn’t going back in my word, so I agreed to take the dog back"

Maryjane

• Published in Animal Stories
• February 19, 2023

The condition known as "sensory processing disorder" (SPD) affects how your brain processes sensory data (stimuli). Things that you can see, hear smell, taste, or touch are considered sensory information.

Your senses may be affected by SPD in one or all of them. SPD typically denotes an oversensitivity to stimuli that other people do not experience.

However, the disease may also have the opposite result. It takes more stimuli in these circumstances for you to be affected.

Adults are less likely to develop SPD than children. But symptoms can also exist in adults, just like the OP in today's AITA story.

These symptoms have probably been present in people since childhood. Adults, however, have discovered strategies for coping with SPD that enable them to conceal the condition from others.

Meet u/glitterytwat, who has moved around the United States a couple of times with her husband. At one point, the OP's husband got a dog, but the dog kept jumping on the OP and scratching her with her super long nails.

The OP mentioned that she has sensory issues, especially with touch and how things feel, so the dog's behavior was a problem for her. They got to move but couldn't take the dog along.

The OP rescued a small dog who's super sweet and soft, but her husband started making passive-aggressive comments about it. Read the whole story for yourself below. 

And here is the story's title

The apartment the OP and her husband would be renting didn’t allow pets

If the opportunity arises, he can get the dog from his mother and bring it here

This lead to the OP's husband saying that would be mean to the dog

Let's head into the comments section and see what other Redditors have to chirp into this story

Society loves shaming people who don't like don't like dogs

How to avoid going into a sensory overload

He needs to take care of his dog first

It doesn't matter if the affection doesn't come from you

She'll likely be a happier and more pleasant pet to be around

A trip every six weeks to the dog's saloon

You are allowed to have your own boundaries

You are doing the bulk of the care

This Redditor wants to know why the OP has to be the one taking care of the dog

This Redditor wants the OP to get a dog walker if the dog is a problem to walk

He shouldn't have a dog if he can't bear the responsibilities

He really needs to keeps the dog's nails short

The OP know the husband was going to adopt a dog

This Redditor believes the OP's husband has a gross dog

He wants a dog he can't look after

You could avoid it and do the bare minimum

It's not just about getting a dog because you feel like it; you also have to be ready to take on the responsibilities that come with it. Redditors couldn't wrap their head around the fact that the OP had to be the one taking care of the husband's dog.

At the end of it all, she got a "not the AH" verdict, and we hope that everything goes well on her side.

Maryjane