My fiance and I just recently got an 8 week old puppy. She is cute, sweet, gentle, playful, happy and healthy. She is everything we could’ve wanted in our puppy, but we still find ourselves second guessing our decision.
Some background to our situation; we had our 5 year old dog pass away this summer very unexpectedly. As you can imagine, it was insanely heartbreaking and the grief was immense. Throughout the last couple of months we did the best we could in acclimating ourselves to a dog-free lifestyle, but ultimately knew we would eventually want another dog.
Fast forward to this week, we finally picked up our 8 week old puppy. We followed her birth from inception and were involved as we could with the litter, even going to meet them when they were 5 weeks old. Not once did we find ourselves second guessing our decision, until we brought her home.
Now it seems like both of us are RE-sad about our dogs death this summer and all of the feelings that had once subsided in the last few months came rushing back. We both thought getting another puppy was the right thing to do, but now both of us are dealing with intense sadness and mental strain.
We both want to keep the new puppy but these feelings are making us feel so guilty and sad. We miss our boy and we did not think we would be as sad as we were getting the new puppy. Do these feelings go away? Will it get easier mentally? We would really like to just hear anyone’s experience with this even if it’s not the exact same situation as ours.
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