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Yes. Also, your dog will pick up on your nervousness and either get nervous themselves or become defensive, neither of which are ideal and could make for a bad situation if you're ever at a park or out for a walk. Dogs are little copycats when it comes to mirroring their owner's anxieties and behaviors, and even if you deal with your anxiety, the dog may have adopted it in the mean time and you'd have to work to repair that damage.
Basically, you're smart to be asking these questions before taking on the responsibility of adoption. I'd recommend waiting until you've worked out your issues before potentially passing them on to your four-legged friend.
Yes. It is hard for a lot of dog owners to also separate their emotions out from their dogs. They just project project project, and this is why they are often terrible at training their dog.
And anxious weird people always have anxious weird dogs. Relaxed people have relaxed dogs, and when conflict does occur the dogs relax. When the owner can't relax, it escalates the problem. My dog has gotten into fights, and if we are both chill, the dogs are chill and usually fine. But if there is a fight and one owner gets very upset/defensive/hostile, the dog cues on that and boom now your dogs hate each other.
I've even had other people's dogs come out of no where, attack my dog (or ignore her warnings to back off), and the other owner goes into a full panic escalating the aggression between the dogs. Meanwhile I have to stand firm. Hell, half the time I have them separated and sitting and the other owner comes over panicking and their dog freaks out and attacks my dog again... and these people always always think dog behavior is some innate thing they have no control over. Crying and screaming and going into hysterics over dogs barking or play-fighting... I see it all the time in the local dog park, esp from new owners for designer dogs who have no dog experience, and zero emotional control of themselves, let alone their dog.
And they think my dog is some genius, because I can slap my hands and command her to stop and she immediately stops and disengages.... no it's because she's trained to do that. Just like she is trained to stop and wait if she gets too far away offleash.