Nevermind guys, I solved it on my own.
Thanks for the help anyway though!

well, that's possibly because you never tell it to stop playing the animation.  

TheRealistOG:

but when I pause and then unpause the game the player stays stuck in the idle animation

Because you're not setting the animation to anything else that I can see.

Jim Perry:

TheRealistOG:

but when I pause and then unpause the game the player stays stuck in the idle animation

Because you're not setting the animation to anything else that I can see.

How do I tell it in an else statement when all the animations for the player depends on player input? Unlike enemy I can't just say else: runAnimation.
Is there a way to fix this?

To enable pausing in my games, I've always preferred a much simpler method: stop calling Update on everything. For GameComponents, you can set their Enabled properties to false. If you are otherwise manually calling your objects' Update methods, then just don't call them when your game is paused. Much simpler, and as long as you always rely on the GameTime parameter to perform updates in your Update methods, and you aren't doing any updating in your Draw methods, it should work flawlessly.

couldn't you just add a resetAnimation to your animations list, and all that 'animation' does is display the normal sprite whenever you're not moving?

Joe:

couldn't you just add a resetAnimation to your animations list, and all that 'animation' does is display the normal sprite whenever you're not moving?

could you explan a little more?

Nevermind, I solved it on my own.

So what exactly did you do to fix it?  Did you use a reset method, or did you do something completely different?

Joe:

So what exactly did you do to fix it?  Did you use a reset method, or did you do something completely different?

I had to make the values change from true or false when the player unpaused the game. Stupid mistake on my part.