Thanks for the encouragement. I do think it will keep getting easier. The first time I saw them at a dog show was rough but each time afterwards it has been a bit better. The time she came and stood right close to me for a good part of the day was sort of like flooding. You get so much of something and you become much more desensitized.
I won't pretend it wouldn't be easier to get back into my hobby if he had left for someone that wasn't into dogs and I basically never saw he or his OW again. But that isn't the hand I was dealt so the fur kids and I will deal with it and move forward.
Good for you on going in the restaurant anyway! I agree the shameless, have no shame. I know in the beginning I felt ashamed for him that he was behaving in the manner he was, that makes no sense I know but I felt it!
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
