I'd go for the dog :)

Hmmm. Was the dog a Siberian Husky?

why dont you just give yourself affection?

I have to disagree #47, I think that it is perfectly fine for someone to uproot their entire life to be with someone that they care about. It is obvious that the OP cared enough about whatever troubles their boyfriend was having, to leave everything that she had behind just to be supportive of him. I think that that is a beautiful cause. Also, we do not know that the OP did not do the things that your own boyfriend did, as in visited first, got a job, etc. All that we know is that the OP moved to "help" her boyfriend. I think that since it was such a selfless cause, as I took it from reading the post, that it isn't exactly a YDI, because she can not really help that her boyfriend is acting like a douche to her now. I am going to have to side with the OP in saying that she left her life behind to help someone, who is now ignoring her existence.

I understand that side, I just don't think you should ever do something based solely on someone else. If you do, you run the risk of becoming jaded when it doesn't work out the way you wanted it to. You end up blaming the other person instead of seeing that you made the choice. Even if it's someone you care about dearly, you have to plan for the fact that it might not work out. You have to take all those factors into account. You have to mentally prepare yourself for any outcome. The OP is a perfect example of someone who "uprooted" thinking everything was going to be perfect. Now she is beginning to feel unappreciated, and somehow that's the boyfriend's fault. We don't know if he asked for this "help" she was providing. We don't know if he asked her to uproot her life for him. Even if he did, she still made the choice. She chose to uproot her life for him, but it was still her choice. She can not hold that choice over his head, because he was not the one who made it. Ultimately, it came down to her. There is no guarantee that he's going to appreciate it the way she feels he should. There was also no guarantee that just because she did all this for him, he was going to be everything she wanted.

Just because the dog will lick your crotch and your boyfriend won't doesn't mean you should be upset.

All of you people should consider yourselves lucky for even HAVING a significant other. I don't, so I get no affection of that kind whatsoever. All of you need to stop complaining about the fact that you "Haven't gotten laid in a month" or that you "Haven't got any action in a year." Do the world a favor and stop botching about it and consider yourselves lucky.

don't tell me you banged da dog dat would be weird

had any of you ever thought for the simple fact that she moved because her boyfriend asked her to and could have been great to her before they moved and once they did he decided she could be then walked all over and treated like crap? you make assumptions based on your own past obviously her life was crap at the time and now you're all rather pathetically jumping to conclusions and making ridiculously graphic comments about her and a dog. how sad is that? her boyfriend which at this point i hope she traded up sounds like an asshole. a dog can give affection in the simplest manner of attention

you need a new boyfriennd.