Actions not words

Meaning don't tell her how you've changed show her.

The way you talk to her

The way you respond to her

Your body language

Your voice tone

Everything you do.

I need to look at the rest of your thread but guessing by your register date you are in process of detaching?

That is key man. Until you do that you have so much emotion behind your words...

She'll sniff you out.

Try to fake it till you make it.

Like a duck in the rain...

My goal is to some day be the person my dog thinks I am