You should discuss getting a pet with your partner.
Susie is volunteering at the animal shelter shortly after she moved into a new place with her boyfriend.
Susie wants to bring home a dog.
Susie contacts her boyfriend to ask him to come to the shelter to look at the dogs.
Susie takes home a dog from the shelter without telling her boyfriend first thinking he would be surprised.
Susie and her boyfriend play with the dogs and choose one together that they both love.
Susie's boyfriend is upset that she did not talk to him and let him help pick out a dog.