Seth Rollins apparently knows a thing or two about sharing custody after a breakup — except in his case, the kid involved was a Yorkshire Terrier named Kevin. And yes, Becky Lynch was completely cool with her husband regularly picking up a dog he shared with an ex.
During their appearance on The Kittle Things podcast with George and Claire Kittle, Rollins and Lynch took part in a relationship advice segment. One viewer asked whether it was weird that the guy she was seeing still visited a dog belonging to his ex a year after their breakup.
“What are your thoughts on shared custody of a dog after a long-term breakup? The new guy I’m seeing still goes to see his ex’s dog, even though they’ve been broken up for a year.”
That immediately hit close to home for Rollins. Long before he and Lynch started their family, Rollins and a former girlfriend bought a Yorkie together named Kevin, and breaking up didn’t mean he stopped seeing the dog.
“When I broke up with one of my girlfriends way back in the day, we had a dog together that we had bought together. His name was Kevin, RIP. He was a little Yorkie.
“Up until we had our daughter, whenever I got home off the road, I would get Kevin for a couple of days. We would go back and forth and drop him off. It worked out pretty good. It really wasn’t a big issue.”
So Rollins was essentially doing shared dog custody while traveling around the world with WWE. Whenever he came home from the road, Kevin would spend a few days with him before going back to his other home. As for whether staying connected to an ex through a pet can create problems in a new relationship, Rollins believes that depends entirely on how the current partner feels about it. For him, the new relationship has to come first.
“I think it’s communication with your current partner, right? Your biggest priority, no shade to the dog, is not the dog. It is your current partner. So, as long as your current partner is comfortable with the situation and you’re properly communicative…”
Luckily for Rollins, Lynch wasn’t sitting at home getting jealous over Kevin’s custody arrangement. She was fine with both the dog and the ex.
“I like the ex. I think it’s fine. I think it’s totally fine.”
The arrangement actually continued until Rollins and Lynch welcomed their daughter. Once they became parents, constantly picking Kevin up and dropping him back off every few days started becoming more trouble than Rollins could realistically keep up with.
“But, you know, we had our kid, and it became too much to go get the dog and return the dog every few days. So I was like, ‘Ah, this is too much stress.’ Sorry, Kevin.”
Lynch pointed out there was another reason why keeping Kevin in one place eventually made more sense. The Yorkie was getting older and dealing with health problems.
“Well, I think as well, Kevin was kind of blind, and he had little health issues, so it’s easier for him to be in one place.”
Kevin has since passed away, but Rollins clearly doesn’t regret keeping him in his life after that old relationship ended. His advice was pretty simple: sharing a dog with an ex doesn’t have to be weird, but your current partner shouldn’t be left wondering what the hell is going on either.
Would you be comfortable with your partner sharing custody of a pet with an ex, or is that crossing a line after a breakup? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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