What do you mean by "in trouble"? What do you do?
So if you aren't open to suggestions from people that may be more experienced than you, (and lets face it...you posted on the First time owners forum, about a pretty simple issue, using a training method that is ineffective and will cause more problems), then what exactly are you wanting from forum members? You can continue to use your methods, and when the dog gets larger and is still having SU problems, and starts to bite when you raise a hand to it, then we'll see you back here with a thread titled "help! My dog is growling and biting us".Well for one, I "supervise" my dog correctly. And it doesn't help if I take things away from him he's not suppost to chew.
It would if you prevent him having access to those items and you swap inappropriate items for ones he is supposed to chew. Popping is the only thing, that has actually worked. I don't hurt him, I don't abuse him. So I surely hope none of you think that. And when I pop him for doing bad things, I have soo much more respect from him.
What you have from him is fear. Dogs don't learn what you think they do. If he is chewing on something, and jumps up on a couch with it, and you pop him, he might think jumping on a couch is wrong, but the chewing is ok, or vice versa. Or being next to whoever was sitting on the couch is wrong. Or when you approach him you are unpredictable. It doesn't teach him what TO DO, or even what NOT to do. And what you are perceiving as respect is fear...hence the submissive urination.
If he didn't like me, then he wouldn't respect me, he wouldn't want to be in my lap or my fiance's lap constantly.
Insecure dogs will often gravitate to their owners. Even dogs that have been severely abused for years will go to their owners. Fearful dogs will go to their owners. You are not correctly interpretting what respect from a dog means.
So I don't know where exactly you get your information at but it's not something I will do to my animal. He's spoiled rotten, gets things that he wants. And when we go walking. I DON'T pop him when he goes to someone barking. I just simply say "No" and "Be Nice". Yesterday we went to the park and I held his collar so that an old man could pet him to show that humans won't hurt him and the rest of the day, he was fine went up to people wagging his tail and being playful. So please don't tell me i"m doing something wrong when clearly I'm not. But thanks for the advice.