So, like ya, anyone think that horse are sent to us to be their owners?
I do.MoonlightEm said:So, like ya, anyone think that horse are sent to us to be their owners?
My husband and I go thru this all the time...NO MORE STRESS! lol...we can pinpont where the stress is coming from yet we keep plowing through...Smarter people would have gotten rid of it months/years ago. We are not the people that want or need the stress in our lives we are the ones that thrive in spite of it. We have our moments...believe me...but we get thru as an intact couple. I wanted the horses for our family, my hubby knew better but gave in anyways...I am the type of person that is really ok staying at home and being with my family and pets and horses...my hubby likes to socialize. I am like you... I don't trust a lot of people and I am very close to the ones I do. I don't need an entourage. I am kind of rambeling here because the stress level here at home has gotten rather high. I want to make a clear point her but it escapes me. :roll: Anyways...Thanks, glad you liked what I wrote earlier. Guess the older I get the more I realize I don't really know everything I thought I did...If I keep on like this 50 will be fabulous...cause I will have learned so much that I thought I already knew! IF I'm not crazy by then...thats always a possibility! hee hee :wink:ahearn said:Dumas- I love your thoughts. After reading this questions I've been thinking about why mine was sent to me and my non -horse loving husband. I think what you said is correct. They gave me a higher level of patience when I think I cannot handle another thing, they gave me the true meaning of unconditional love, they gave me trust, which is something I lack. I have a tendency to push people, be it friends or strangers away because I have a difficult time trusting. If I can't trust these huge (or sometimes small) animals with my life (and my family's life), then who can I trust?
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ahearn said:Maybe you are on to something! You know you keep picking up that horse poop. Maybe that's what is making you so philosophical or ....Maybe it has some kind of healing effect in it, so that when you are 50, you WILL be fabulous! Heck, maybe you found the cure to cancer! Or helps as a stress soother... we could bottle it and get a patent on it!!There ya go, that's why Dumas came into your life! So that you could find the cure to stress, cancer, pimples, the list goes on!
Another great story! My husband was a "non-horse" person too. Now it has turned into a grand passion for both of us. Wonderful that DB and David found each otherMicki O said:When my girlfriend had to relocate to AZ she offered me her 2 geldings. My husband David was raised on a sheep farm and is an animal person but was taught that horses were expensive useless animals that cribb, dug holes, ruin fields, etc. He said we'd never have any on our farm. Well I pouted and sulked like a good wife can and he finally gave in but swore he'd never have anything to do with "those animals".
One of the horses is DB, a 26 yr old 14h Arabian who had been abused when my friend got him. He was way under weight with open wounds and didn't trust anyone. Even during the 6 years she had him, DB never really settled in, never really trusted, was very skiddish, etc. She didn't really mind because he was just a companion to her tb. I figured I'd just feed him and work with him as much as he'd let me until old age did him in. No big deal.
The day DB was delivered to our farm, we got him out of the trailer expecting him to panic when we released him in the pasture with the tb. Instead that horse walked directly up to my husband and laid his chin on David's shoulder. There they stood for what seemed like 5 minutes before my husband reached up and started rubbing DB's neck. That was 4 months ago. The 2 of them are now basically inseparible. If David is late getting home from work, DB catches an attitude. If he doesn't go straight to the pasture to see him, DB starts calling for him. [My friend said she's never heard him make a sound.] If we are standing in the barn or pasture together DB will come up and wedge just his head between us. And David is just as bad. He'll call to check on "his" horse, takes him running (David doesn't ride) and ignores me to spend time grooming DB. David can do anything to or with that horse. I am seeing a side of my husband that I knew was there but didn't know how to bring out.
Things like this don't just happen. There has to be some sort of higher power that knew those 2 needed each other and the best time to bring them together. Now I just have to pray that horse lives at least another 10 15 years! :lol: