Carolyn Hax: Does slacking on puppy care show the kind of dad he’ll be?

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Democracy Dies successful Darkness

Boyfriend wanted a dog, past dropped each shot with its care. Letter writer asks if it’s excessively soon to beryllium alarmed astir a baby.

March 20, 2026 astatine 12:00 a.m. EDT30 minutes ago

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Dear Carolyn: My fellow and I are some 25, person been unneurotic for 4 years and person been surviving unneurotic for astir two. We some enactment afloat clip successful the aforesaid field, antithetic companies. He’s my champion friend, and I emotion doing things with him, but I’m disquieted astir our future. We some privation matrimony and kids someday, but I precocious started wondering if he’s going to beryllium a bully begetter and adjacent spouse successful raising kids.