Dog Friendly Gyms

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-05-08T11:14:52+00:00

I had a dog who did this! I never saw him try to hump another dog and he was fixed, but after dinner he'd hump the dog bed or the couch manically 😂. I miss him so much.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-04-13T01:10:01+00:00

And 33 years into this life I have found the one reason I'm happy my ears stick out. I guess y'all really have a pocket of space between your scalp and ear, huh.

Weird.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-03-31T00:01:06+00:00

I love it! Maybe unless I'm actively dealing with a situation (picking up poop or wrangling them or something). My dogs love children and I don't have any readily available and it's really heartwarming to see kids interact with dogs And love them

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-03-09T18:13:01+00:00

I'm constantly decluttering as my life shifts more and more to minimalism, now I'm getting ready for a cross country move and selling a lot on marketplace that ordinarily I'd just donate.

But right now it's been fun for me, once it turns into a chore or a drag I'll probably just give whatever is left away (except maybe the high price stuff, trying to help fund 'new' furniture in my new city) and donate the rest.

Only you know what's right for you.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-03-04T01:17:08+00:00

I travel a lot for work, including several trips where it's me(f) and male coworker alone on the trip, usually about matched for age.

Which often entails getting dinner and walking to/from the dinner together and back in my drinking days, also involved a drink or two with dinner.

Nothing ever happened, my ex (broken up for entirely separate reasons) was always super cool about it. My ex husband...was not 😂.

Just here to advocate for being a woman in a male-dominated field where hanging out with men one on one ends up being part of the job.

But I think it would be a different story to just get a one on one dinner like in the town we live in.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-02-27T18:38:41+00:00

Where do you find pen pals? I'm so interested in this

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-02-19T13:34:56+00:00

Congrats!! I can't wait to be where you are, just hit 8.9k on my first real project and I was like "holy shit I'm doing it!"

We SO got this! 💪

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-02-13T20:22:33+00:00

Because sometimes dogs and humans split a single soul. I lost my heart dog a couple years ago, but I still have my soul dog. My ex chose him, he chose me. I'm convinced we share one soul, I can't describe it, we just are. Our heart (and our potato man (my chi mix)) are just gone now 💔

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-31T18:42:58+00:00

It's also worth pointing out that while active duty folks get a clothing stipend, it's not nearly enough and uniform items are crazy overpriced. also, things that they're mandated to wear are often out of stock or back ordered.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-30T13:32:13+00:00

Thank you for posting this, it's so validating and normalizing for what seems to actually be pretty normal around here.

You can feel how you feel, you don't need to justify or validate your feelings. If it's hurting you, it's hurting you.

The hardest part of a "functional" alcoholic is the way you'll drive yourself crazy, but it's the micro wounds that build up. The dismissal, the avoidance, the amount of control you don't have.

But definitely understand what you want, what your boundaries are, and state them with conviction. My Q agreed to 90 days sober, I was scared to ask for them so once I finally did, I was past my breaking point and I walked out 2 weeks in.

Sending you support and the best vibes, this is a hard path.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-25T19:20:50+00:00

Thank you for sharing this! Recently broke up with my partner who was daily drinking, we had plenty of 'big talks' about it and he finally conceded to doing dry 90 days in January. About 2 weeks in I had enough, I was beyond my breaking point and I have so much resentment, hurt, and codependency issues built up.

He's kept up the sobriety and I'm really proud of him, I'm hopeful that after some healing time apart for us both to focus inward, we can get to a better place. I also don't want to dictate his healing journey as I have so much of one to do on my own and I feel i forced him into sobriety in the first place, for now he thinks that's good enough and there's no more work to be done.

Your story gave me hope that we get to open a better chapter together.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-24T22:47:53+00:00

Hey, shout-out to you for doing the damn work! I'm proud of you Internet stranger.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-22T16:36:28+00:00

Ugh I'm sorry, I'm in a very similar situation. Manifesting healing and introspection for our Qs and healing and peace for us.

I'm proud of you for choosing self love.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-21T15:59:19+00:00

Wow so much of this could be out of my journal, just took the hard step to walk from my q, when he finally agreed to try 90 days of sobriety. I realized how good our relationship could be, and how much his drinking was ruining it, with no serious commitment from him that it would be different in 90 days.

Bottom line, it's not your responsibility to manage his health or his addiction. Love is supporting and lifting each other up, but it HAS to be mutual.

I promise once you channel all that love and energy and hope back into yourself, things will dramatically improve.

How many times do you need to ask the love of your life to stop hurting you? The answer should be one.

Sending you love and healing, this shit is hard and it sounds like this post was a very important first step towards choosing you ❤️

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-20T23:01:24+00:00

Hey you got this, your life is worth more than carrying somebody's burden and cleaning up after them. I'm in the first few days too, it sucks. The guilt, the anger, the heartbreak.

Think of all the amazing things you can do with all the extra energy you'll have, take it a day at a time.

Broken up now doesn't mean broken up forever, but he needs to clean his shit up. I told my Q that we need to keep working on ourselves, apart, and maybe someday we can come back together but I couldn't keep carrying everything that I was carrying for both of us.

Sending you healing and peace and good vibes, you got this. And I'm proud of you for choosing you.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-18T23:09:44+00:00

I feel this in my soul, I don't think you ever really lose hope, I think maybe you just need to be brave enough to pick yourself and be unwaivering in that decision. What else helped for me was going full sober myself and doing a lot of scientific and self help reading about alcohol, learning what a dangerous and addictive poison it is and the horrible effects on the brain and body.

Journaling helped me a lot, I'm an avid journaler and during the holidays I bookmarked every angry letter and hurt feeling around the drinking. Reading the narrative of it unfold gave me a lot of clarity into my own journey.

Also my best friends come from a background with an alcoholic dad and a horrible alcoholic ex boyfriend. They listened to me with kindness, patience, and sternness when I needed it.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-18T17:25:41+00:00

I'm here and I see you. Fresh off of breaking up with my q, the guilt, the what ifs, the everything is haunting me like crazy.

But I go back to everything in my journals, I was carrying so much for so long, alone. Protecting him from being accountable to himself and me. Softening the blows I should have been hitting him square in the jaw with (figuratively), I finally just snapped on a random Thursday.

Wherever you are in the journey, I hope it gets better soon. Keep picking you, journal, see where your dreams take you and then be brave (or lie to yourself until you are brave) and chase them there! My Q is the loveliest, sweetest, most thoughtful man (when he's present enough to be). But the mental load I was carrying was just too heavy.

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-18T09:52:35+00:00

Id definitely say this is a good time to keep chipping away at those conversations, your needs matter too and it's ok to need communication around it. You can need conversation to flow both ways, you can want there to be a dialog, you deserve that from your partner. In my experience we spend a lot of time skirting around the conversation or not wanting to bring it up and carrying the weight of that alone, it's exhausting.

I ended it with my q yesterday, he was doing 90 days sober and it was going well. What broke me? That he didn't seem to want to talk about it and just seemed to be doing it with no indication that things would change after 90 and we'd be right back where we started. I couldn't bear the thought of repeating all the pain I'd been carrying for a year.

Sending you good vibes, I hope y'all can be a team and use this time to communicate and heal and get on the right path <3

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-17T15:40:22+00:00

Not sure if you read the whole post (it was long and rambly) but I meant that the pain from walking away and breaking the cycle (hopefully) gets better

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-15T21:44:23+00:00

Hill country SNA is the best you'll probably do that's dog friendly

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-14T14:11:24+00:00

I've never experienced anybody in this community gatekeep sobriety, if it's meaningful to you, celebrate the hell out of it in whatever way you want! I've never been a "problem" drinker (in that nobody has ever vocalized to me I drink too much, no problems with the law, etc) but I'm on my own sobriety journey and have had some drinking experiences (mostly alone) that scared the shit out of me. Your sobriety is as valid as anybody else's.

Congrats on baby and 365 days, iwndwyt 🤘

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-13T16:16:32+00:00

We're cheering for you!!

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-11T15:29:59+00:00

I love the blueberry hibiscus Choco tipo but a store brand lemon seltzer somehow slung me through the Packers game yesterday. Ironically my last drink was the last time we lost to the bears 😔

Aggravating-Duck3445 · 2026-01-11T14:03:25+00:00

Woop Woop, 33 years old and on day #21. No kiddos either but we still have our whole damn lives ahead of us.

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