My aunt had a Sheltie. It was a sweet dog. Smart too. Lots of grooming, however, moreso than most other breeds.
My brother and his wife are still making their plans to formally separate this Summer, all the while trying to justify each of their reasons for doing so. SIL is the one who comes up with the most rationalizations. My brother just says he's not going to fight it. I find their getting along so well through all this to be quite unnerving, creepy even.
I love them both dearly, but they're p*ssing me off to no end as well. Bone-headed foolishness. I tell my mom that the primary trigger for their decisions is MLC. There's nothing else it could be at this point.
And while I sympathize with SIL on those points she raises about her disagreement with my brother on matters of religion (she wants to renew her faith while he has become increasingly strident in his agnosticism, oddly) she doesn't have much of a leg to stand on by blaming their disagreement on Christianity for ending their M when Christianity itself just does not support her in this. In other words, yes, they do have a parting of the ways on Christianity, but using that as a justification for splitting is just not scriptural -- it's hypocritical. Plus all her other arguments come from secular psychobabble at direct odds with Godly wisdom.
I have been lurking on your thread. I know you've had your own hands full. I think your H has just become too ingrained in his foolishness; he's all too accustomed to having his way. I am proud of you for not allowing him to get away with it anymore.
