Should You Have A Dog… Or A Woman?
Yesterday my fiancé and I were walking around at the park. There was an older man with his dog there following him and his commands. It got me to thinking about why the dog is considered man’s best friend. There is no major unpredictability in the dog’s responses. He just follows his owner.
Humans want to feel a sense of companionship and love, but there are more complexities in life that we, as humans, deal with compared to the average animal. Because there are more complexities in human life, we have to deal with more of our emotions, problems that arise and misunderstandings that may come about, which can lead to arguments and a lack of fulfillment in our lives.
The Factinate website has a very interesting article written by Rachel Seigel called, “45 Scientific Facts About Differences Between Men and Women.” Our brains are formed differently. How we process information is different. Men get a positive chemical boost from conflict and competition, while conflict elicits negative chemical reactions in women, creating fear, stress, and sadness. It is a fact… men and women are built differently!
As a man, dealing with women may have been decided to be “too much to handle” or too unpredictable and lend itself to problems that men don’t want to deal with. On the Three Million Dogs website, there is an article called, “How dogs are better than women” by Jing. It gives insight to the ease of having a canine companion over having a female companion. I found it to be a little bit comical, but also true as well.
Should you pick having a dog over having a woman? Dogs make great pets. Women and dogs are different though. There’s things that women can do that dogs can’t. More household chores will get done with women than with having a dog around. There’s things that dogs don’t know how to do and in turn, there will never be certain problems. For example, dogs can’t talk so there will never be arguments with a dog. If you have yourself together and enjoy being single and not having a committed relationship to a female, get a dog! If you want companionship on a more complex level, a normal family life like having a household and/or children, it is inevitable that you will have to make the decision at some point to have a woman in your life.
Recently, a man messaged me saying that he’d “never do that again” referring to having a woman in his life. He viewed love as something that hurt him and so he feels threatened to be in a similar situation in the future. If you let bad experiences overwhelm you with fear and dread, you will block yourself from future opportunities.
It is important to keep in mind that not all women are created equal! I think it is safe to say that there are many animal lovers out there both men and women alike. Avoiding love with a female at all costs and getting a pet to try to take the place of a female may be considered a kind of solution, but it is an avoidance of deep emotional feelings that haven’t healed if we really want love, but don’t want to be hurt again. Dogs are not women. Women are not dogs.
As we move through life, we will encounter difficulties if we are trying to reach certain goals and milestones in our lives and haven’t yet arrived there. The physical differences as well as cognitive differences with men and women can lead to problems, but they don’t have to. There are people that have mastered love, dating and relationships that have knowledge and can provide value to those seeking the same fulfillment in a human relationship. Although, if you don’t want to go this route, you don’t have to, you can always get a dog. Companionship can be found in life in simple and complex forms. A long lasting relationship in love has its rewards if we allow ourselves to be open to the possibility and overcome the difficulties that we encounter along the way.
