I've heard this saying "if momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy" many times and thought yeah that's so true..but I don't do that....and then I really thought about and realised that even when I keep a lid on my emotions and think they aren't showing this does happen.
For example, I'm walking my daughter to school and decide one of the dogs would like it to. After getting three of us ready to go out the door, we were on time and now we are late. So I think OK we'll just walk quicker. We do walk quicker. We stop for a interesting rock. We stop for a poo (that's the dog not me or my daughter). We fall flat on our face (that's my daughter's too big new shoes). The dog is pulling and whining and barking all the way. Eventually we get to school and my daughter goes in; everything's fine. We turn around and it's like I have a different dog with me. He is calm, he walks by my side, he doesn't make a sound. I think why couldn't you have been like this on the way here. Then I get it , I realise his walker (me) is a different person now we've made our deadline. My shoulders are relaxed, my breathing is normal.... he knows it...now I know it too!
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Malcolm Gladwell wrote a great article int he New Yorker about this extra-physical relationship we have with dogs... read it at http://www.malcolmgladwell.com/2006/2006_05_22_a_dog.html
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