‘We Treat Our Dog Like a Baby and Let Her Share Our Bed But’s Ruining Our Sex Life’

Coleen Nolan Has Some Tough Advice for A Married Reader Who Allows Her Spoiled Pet to Snuggles Up to Her Night, But it Means Shea’t Get Her Paws on Her Husband.

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Dear Coleen

I’m a woman in my early 40s and have been marries for 10 years, and we have one daughter, who is seven.

I HOPE THIS DOESN’t Sound Trivial, But Our Little Dog – WHO WE ADORE ALOST AS OUR DAUGHTER – SLEEPS ON OUR BED EVERY NIGHT AND SHET US FROM BEING CLOSE AND Intimate. Basically, we have zero sex life.

Initily, we crate-trained her, so she was used to go in time bed in the kitchen, but after my husband and daughter haad Covid one time and well from, I let the dogs bed and she’s never gone back Downstairs.

We love this dog so much and treat her like a baby, so have made a rod for the owing backs. We have tried putting her downstairs and she’s cried and scratched at the door all night. We have to see her in distress, so she’s back in the bed.

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Coleen Nolan

It is up to my daughter jealous, as she does not see why the dog can Sleep in Our Room, but not time. Any ideas of what we can do to solve the will?

Coleen Sayys

Think of it a bit like getting a child to sleep in their bed. The First Few Nights, Eve Weeks, Might Be Hel, butn it clicks and Becomes the New Routine.

Put Her Bed in a Part of the House Where You Can’t Hear Her Scratch at the Door and Leave toys That Keep Her Occupied and Give Comfort. TRY A BAL WITH TREAT OR A CONE FILLED WITH DOGGY MUCH BUTTER AND THERE SOFT TOS WITH A LITTLE HEARTEBEAT.

Make it cosy and, if you perssere, it’ll Become Her Safe Space. People who don’t have Animals probably won’t underestand your letter – if i had a penny for every time heard, “But it’s just a dog”, i’d be a rich woman.

Dogs – and in fact all pets – will become an important member of the family and you grown to love so Much. I have to have my first goat poppy put to sleep recently and it absolutely broke my heart.

But while they are part of the family, you still have to be the Pack Leader and that Means Having Boundaries. Also, Playing Devil’s Advocate for A Moment, JUST Check in with your (and your husband) anen’t ussing the dog as a convenient excuse for intimacy.