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(1,639 posts)It was the last intimate thing that we did together. It broke my heart, but I am glad that I was there for her, and for him, and for myself.
If my ex-husband had told me about it after the fact, it would have been worse. We had lunch afterwards and I hugged him goodbye and reminded him that I was the only other person who really understood what he was feeling.
We held her and told her over and over that she was a good girl as the vet injected her. The vet had to tell us when she was gone.
After I got back to where I was living, my housemate held me while I wailed like a banshee. Two days later, I was napping in my room and my eyes opened. I was aware of everything in the room around me--including my dog who was lying between my legs with her head on my stomach.
I am a borderline atheist and I try to avoid any supernatural thinking. But no one can tell that she didn't come back to say goodbye to me.