r/Relationships Boyfriend Tried to Starve My Dog to Death
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to R slash relationships, where O.P.'s boyfriend tries to starve her dog to death. |
| 0:06.4 | Our next Reddit post is from Unknown. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm a 28-year-old woman, and I'm seriously considering divorcing my husband, who's 32, |
| 0:13.7 | because of how he treated my dog and what came after it. |
| 0:17.1 | My husband is never mean to my dog, but he's very much not a pet person. I knew about that going |
| 0:23.2 | into the marriage. I was fine with him not interacting with my dog or helping me with dog duties. |
| 0:28.3 | I accepted that. His only duty is to open the yard door to let my dog out to pee when I work |
| 0:33.7 | 10-hour shifts. Even with this simple task, he complains that this is a lot of work for him and makes him stressed out. His reasoning is that having to let the dog out means that he has to constantly keep this at the back of his head. And it's one extra thing that he has to do on top of his busy work, which stresses him out. Anyways, he still did let the dog out to pee most of the time, |
| 1:13.5 | and I kind of just accepted that. Yo, I got to stop here. That's just such a stupid excuse. How does this guy feel about brushing his teeth? That's a chore that you've got to do twice a day. Does that stress him out having brushing his teeth in the back of his mind? What about peeing? That's something you've got to do, I don't even know, two, three, four, five times a day. |
| 1:10.9 | Does he get super stressed out about the imminent need to pee? This is the dumbest excuse I've ever heard. What about putting his clothes on? Oh my God, he has to do that every day too and then take them off when he goes to sleep. Man, what a dumbass. Recently, I had to travel out of country because my mom needed surgery. |
| 1:29.1 | The first week, I asked my friend to take care of my dog, but they were busy for the last |
| 1:33.2 | two weeks, so I asked my husband to take care of him. |
| 1:35.8 | He didn't complain and said okay, which I appreciate. |
| 1:38.8 | I got back from my trip and found out that my 17-pound dog lost five pounds under his care. That's one-third of his weight. |
| 1:48.0 | The poor puppy is depressed that I'm gone, and God knows whether he's being fed twice a day, |
| 1:53.8 | per my instructions. My dog always loses weight when I'm gone due to stress. But losing a third of your |
| 2:00.1 | body weight in 13 days? So obviously, I was very due to stress. But losing a third of your body weight in 13 days, |
| 2:02.3 | so obviously I was very unhappy about that. |
| 2:05.5 | I was debating about whether I should have an argument with him |
| 2:08.3 | because technically he did do me a favor by taking care of my dog. |
| 2:12.7 | But he also did a really poor job. |
| 2:15.6 | It also feels like this is weaponized incompetence. I just can't get over |
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