EXCLUSIVE I'm happier with a dog than kids: Children would have ruined my life, I'm happier with a dog - and I'm a proud DINKWAD (dual income, no kids with a dog) says HANNAH BETTS By Hannah Betts For The Daily Mail Published: 16:32, 27 June 2024 | Updated: 18:58, 27 June 2024 e-mail 67 View comments I woke this morning with my beloved in my arms, as they tenderly licked my ear. ‘Good morning, my darling,’ I whispered. ‘I love you so much.
’ I rose and, following me into the sunlit living room, we planted ourselves on the sofa to lie gazing into each other’s eyes. This ecstasy of adoration is how we begin each new day. For, finally, at 53, I have discovered the love of my life, and am living for every last moment of it.
I’m not talking about Terence, my tall, dark and dashing boyfriend. He’d left for the office hours earlier. No, the subject of my devotion is Pimlico, my blue whippet, the hound I dreamed of for decades before acquiring six years ago in October.
For I am a DINKWAD, and this is how I roll. Hannah Betts with her boyfriend Terence and their blue whippet Pimlico You know, DINKWAD — the acronym for couples boasting a ‘dual income, no kids, with a dog’. First, we had YUPPIEs (‘young, upwardly mobile professionals’).
Then, we had LATs (‘long-distance couples living apart together’). We are familiar with DINKs (‘dual income, no kids’), and now we have DINKWADS — DINKs plus Rover, making three. New research from the charity The Guide Do.
