The downside to having grown emotionally and being able to experience ALL your feelings, is loss of a meaningful attachment, whether it be to a human or an animal, is profoundly felt. I'm still deeply missing and crying for Cleo more than 3 weeks later, and wondering if this daily sorrow will ever ease up.
I am so sorry Sheri. I know for myself those loses of pets have been really difficult. In an odd way they seem to me to have been safer things to have feelings about than my real human personal stuff. Now that I am on the road to healing this seems even more true. My heart is with you. I have no advice to give, but will share that when I lost my pit bull rescue girl, Maggie, to cancer at the start of the pandemic, I thought I'd never put myself through it again. I now have another rescue pit. And she is as sweet as can be and I love her as much or more than Maggie. Perhaps my emotional capacity is re-growing or that I am now allowing myself to more fully feel, regardless I know what you are going through and you have my deepest sympathies.
Thank you, Scott. Yes, these dogs are such a special breed. Cleo grew my empathy to a whole new level, and turned me into a "dog person." What a dear, sweet soul. Everyone who met Cleo, recognized this quality in her and remarked about it. She was a one woman dog however, and wholly devoted to me. Ya can't often get this from a human. I'll take a dog's love over a humans, ANY day of the week.
I am so sorry Sheri. I know for myself those loses of pets have been really difficult. In an odd way they seem to me to have been safer things to have feelings about than my real human personal stuff. Now that I am on the road to healing this seems even more true. My heart is with you. I have no advice to give, but will share that when I lost my pit bull rescue girl, Maggie, to cancer at the start of the pandemic, I thought I'd never put myself through it again. I now have another rescue pit. And she is as sweet as can be and I love her as much or more than Maggie. Perhaps my emotional capacity is re-growing or that I am now allowing myself to more fully feel, regardless I know what you are going through and you have my deepest sympathies.
Scott
Thank you, Scott. Yes, these dogs are such a special breed. Cleo grew my empathy to a whole new level, and turned me into a "dog person." What a dear, sweet soul. Everyone who met Cleo, recognized this quality in her and remarked about it. She was a one woman dog however, and wholly devoted to me. Ya can't often get this from a human. I'll take a dog's love over a humans, ANY day of the week.