Ever get dumped because someone chose a relationship with a dog over one with you?

Last year my bf of two years broke up with me because of conflict we were having around his six year old schnauzer-terrier mix. First, let me say that I grew up with a dog and have many friends with dogs that have much healthier relationships with their dogs, so I am not anti-dog. The problem was that I think my ex suffered a lot of trauma as a kid (one instance involving his father taking away a dog his mother had gotten for him) and as an adult, had some difficult, lonely periods before we met. The dog became his'buddy'and he humanized it in some ways - I think he thought of the dog as a guardian angel. As such, he allowed it to be a literal lapdog and really indulged it.The dog would constantly vie for attention and didn't seem calm when I was around. He would have accidents with us sitting 10 feet away, even though he got walked all the time. My ex did try to go Cesar Milan on the dog, but he made me feel like I was a bad person for asking for the dog to be better behaved&trained. While we were on vacation (mind you, just like a 4 or 5 day trip) we would be in a fab global city or beach and he would remark how much he missed his dog amongst comments about how he was having a good time with me (kind of mixed signal, if you will). I don't mind him thinking about the dog, but when you're in Argentina having supposedly a new wonderful adventure for a few days, you shouldn't miss your dog THAT much, right? Further, the dog was so indulged with walks and doggie day care, that at night/weekends when my bf&I were together, the dog would be taken out for a walk every 4 hours (presumably my ex said the dog just had a small bladder), so it really cramped our ability to go out (i.e. always on a schedule...even dinner&a movie could be a challenge if the movie was long!)In every other respect, we had great friendship, good physical connection, a lot of common friends and a lot of love. My ex said he would never choose his dog over me, but he decided one day that I was not compatible with his dog and he broke up with me. I have been devastated ever since.To an extent, I was willing to go to counseling together and even try to work myself on tolerating the dog misbehavior better (or just retraining it myself!)...but fundamentally, my only concern was that my ex loved the dog more than me. I"felt"it throughout our relationship, and him breaking up with me over the fights about the dog just solidified that my perceptions were accurate. My poor ex really does have baggage from his past and I understand and accept that about him. I still love the guy with all my heart. I just wish he could have seen how he projected his issues with humans in his past into this relationship with the dog, so that he could work on himself and the dog, and that we could have co-existed happily together. Anyone have this happen on my side of things? Anyone be the dog owner and break up with someone that can offer advice? Please tell me human life and love are worth just a little more than an animal's?

Unfortunately there are those that love their animals more than humans....sad but true! It is a twisted world!