diaryofarider

And let's all just agree it's different. It is. However, by the argument that "you can't possibly know until/unless you have kids..." then it follows that, since I will never have kids, isn't my love and devotion to my dogs the deepest I will ever know? Am I supposed to feel constantly like I have some stunted or untapped capacity for love? And it's of course different than the love I have for friends or family, the love I had for my mom, but they are the only living things that will ever be entirely dependent on me. Why does it have to come down to a more than/better than competition? I've only had Ruby for two years and I can just look at her sleeping and see her whole too-short life pass before my eyes and know the magnitude of heartbreak I've signed on for by loving her this much. It surely pales in comparison to what a mother feels for her child, but it's what I know. And I sound like a crazy dog lady and that's okay, because that's what I am.