To live the Pug-life is to "Pug-it", meaning to honour a partner's trust in you without waivering.
The opposite of Pug-it would be to Elf-it, leaving your significant other feeling Unpugged. That could make you Unpugworthy in their eyes.
Fulfilling the Pug-life is to follow through on your commitments to your partner, leaving no doubt as to your devotion to them.
As Susie sat there alone with a sharp knife, she contemplated opening her birthday present early. She strongly believed that "trust is everything" in a relationship. She had promised Stuart that she would not open it. She chose the Pug-life.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)