I'm not sure if I'm overreacting here. My boyfriend and I have been together for about 10 months. Good guy. Very career-oriented. Generous. I've noticed he tends to be physically confrontation in different situations - never with me - but with others. For example, there was one time a few months back when some guy intentionally flipped up my skirt and snapped the band of my underwear and my boyfriend lost it. I begged him to just walk away and he just wouldn't. They got into a fistfight and my boyfriend got the worst of it.
Anyways, I'm only sharing this story because I'm thinking about all the times he's been physically violent in the past. That's the only time, until recently and it was with his own dog.
We were taking a walk through the city. His dog was on a leash, but we crossed paths with a mom pushing a stroller. His dog (harmless dog) suddenly got excited and jumped onto the stroller with his front paws and stuck his head into the baby's face. My boyfriend reacted by yanking on the leash so hard, his dog struck the ground on his side. After the mom walked away, he proceeded to smack the dog with his bare hand, repeatedly saying "BAD DOG!" and hitting him again. I told him to stop it and he did. His dog was whimpering.
I don't know if I'm overreacting here or what, but I told him that was completely unnecessary. I really have a low threshold for violence like this, but he played it off and says, "it's okay, you have a tender heart, I know..." but that's not what the issue is here.
I guess I'm looking for advice here. He's not a bad guy, but this incident with his own dog has really made me consider ending things. Am I overreacting here?
TL;DR: BF hit his own dog after an incident, and I have a zero-tolerance for it. Not sure if this is the breaking point and if I should consider ending things entirely.
Submitted May 27, 2019 at 12:17PM by ZestycloseConstant http://bit.ly/30OgLTh
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