Im 15 and he’s 16. We’ve been dating for almost 3 and a half months. For our 2 month, i gave him a matching heart necklace. His is clear and mines pink.For almost 2 weeks now, he’s been planning my birthday and Valentines day. My birthday is 3 days before valentines day. So what should i give him? He loves football, dogs, red, black, and alot of other thing. any suggestions?

My husband emptied our home when I was out of town. He took almost everything including our pets. We were married for almost 7 years at the time. Because he had legal right to be in the house when he took the stuff and I had no legal right to go into his new house, I was not able to get anything back. We are now in the middle of divorce. I want full custody of my 2 boys (1 is a joint child), half of marital assets and my dogs. He gave one dog to me and refuses to let me see the other. The dog he won’t let me see is 7 years old and I raised him while my husband was a long haul truck driver. I miss my dog. He is my hairy child. How do I get my dog back?

What to do during initial shock period of marriage separation?

My wife and I have been married a little over 12 years. I met my wife when she was about to turn 20, unsure of her life, had just moved from Billings, MT to Seattle and I was 28 years old, getting ready to head back home to Nepal as my status as student, work in the US had expired and I didn’t want to live here illegally. We had a lot in common and had endless conversations. I told her of my situation and what it would take for us to be together. We decided to get married about 6 months after we met with the option if it didn’t work out, we would walk away. During the 12 years of marriage, we had good and bad times, made some major bad decisions and our relationship began to deteriorate. Some of these major decisions became an emblem of our relationship going south. Perhaps there were many things my wife would have done/experienced otherwise had we not me.

I am not guilty of my actions and my role in this. We started seeing a therapist every other week. My wife expressed her feeling of being lost and having this emptiness within, needing to be alone to take care of her. Every time we talked about it, it got worse. My sheltering and protecting her finally had an adverse impact. Finally on our 4th session, she became quite adamant that she wanted to separate to figure things out. Any suggestion to try and work things out only made things worse. To add to the complication, we have a lovely 14 month old son, a house and 2 dogs. So the best option was for me to move out. The therapist has suggested a trial separation period of 3-4 months. That evening, I begged my wife that we could turn this around if we just gave it one last chance.

To get back to my questions, I have thought of going away for a week (some isolated place like the Death valley or canyons in Utah), taking one of the dogs so as to get over this shock before planning on this separation (finding a temporary place to live, etc). Should I go away or deal with it now?
I am sorry I did not word a sentence correctly. I didn’t mean "I am not guilty.." I meant, "I take responsibility for my…"
Thanks for catching that Peaches.

attacked by this great dane? I mean can anyone tell me what to expect? I got A lawyer cause every morning I run my dogs and this dog just came outta nowhere and snapped so I got A lawyer can anybody tell me what the difference is between mediation and court? Thanks in advance!

I am going through a nasty divorce after 6 yrs of marriage cheating happened on both sides. My current home is worth 500,000 we live in N.J here the taxes are really high and so are the prices for housing.We have two cars he drives the mercedes and i drive the volvo.We have 3 dogs and a cat.The furnishings in our home are worth about 25-30 grand some of them were bought over sea’s since we travled a lot our first year of marriage. Hubby is 38 yrs old and i am only turning 26 yrs old next month so he is set in career makes 95 grand a year while i have not worked in 3 years what are my chances at alimony?
I have two kids a 3 yr old son from an affair that i had and 5 yr old daughter thats getting a paternity test because of same affair .My hubby as cheating on me with his ex. wife and he has 2 kids with her wants to move in with her and sell our home?

I have a 19 month german shepherd mix.She is full grown.For the past few months she has had EXTREME separation anxiety.If she is anywhere by herself she freaks out.Or even in a room with our two other dogs(one of which is her mother).She tears things up,and scratches the doors and walls.We have a crate that she goes in,but she is very close to tearing it up so she can get out.How can we help this?

How does a dog actually get separation anxiety? Genetics? Abuse? How do you cope with a dog that has separation anxiety? Can the dog ever be fixed to become a normal stable dog? Or can the situation be controlled with training & exercise? Please answer. Thanks!

One more thing, are dogs with separation anxiety supposed to be crated when no one is watching so that the dog does not bring down the whole house?

My husband and I have been married 3 months. During most of our engagement he was gone due to the military. Now that I am settled in here at his current base and we are together everyday I feel insecure. I try to keep it to myself but sometimes I have to sit him down and talk about it because I hate the way it makes me worry. I feel that things happened that I don’t know about while he was here but I was living in another state. His dorm mates and friends tell me I’d be stupid to think that he ever did me wrong and that he is a great guy. I just can’t help feeling like something went wrong behind my back or something will go wrong in the future. We have a very open marriage, it is easy to talk to him about these things but the thoughts never fully leave my mind. I grew up being taught that men can be dogs. I always guarded myself for fear of being hurt. Now that Im married I just want to be 100% happy but can’t because I feel insecure. How can I overcome this? Advice from a military wife would be amazing.

He made me get rid of my dogs, they’re my protection & trained to acknowledge if I should have a seizure. My disability check doesn’t cover everything for needs, no alimony making the ex in contempt. I’ve never been exposed to HOA, POA, lived in a modular or lot rent. I’m lost where to turn.

My dogs have been certified as therapy animals, but the organization does not certify any other animals. I know that cats and other animals are used for therapy. I have a wonderful cat who would be a great therapy animal and I would like to have him work alongside my dogs. Does anyone know of an organization that certifies animals other than dogs for therapy?