perverseangelic
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Joined: 2/2/2004 From: Davis, Ca Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: asissyforher and why do you find it so hard to believe? for one thing, i am allowed, at that time, to set my own pace and schedule. two==i have a pocket notebook and i know everyday what i am doing... now why is that is SO hard? if "I" can do it,..why can't anyone else? and i am proud that i have a perfect record. i am 51 not 15. as "I" see it............only children need punishing. an adult should have no problems keeping things done. "I" never have. I find this quite insulting. Yup, I schedule and I plan. I aslo still forget things. Yup, I know what I'm doing every day. I'm also going to school full time and working full time in addition to keeping a house including feeding and clothing that house. Things sometimes slip through the cracks. Too, when we began I was learning to live my life in an entirely different manner. Still, I can count on both hands the times I've been punished, however, to imply that someone who needs punishment is childish bothers me. I agree with Emerald that real punishment should be rare, or there's a problem there. However, stating that someone who needs punishment is less than someone who doesn't upsets me. Perhaps we're newer to our relationships? Perhaps we've been given an instruction that runs very counter to our normal behavior and it is taking time to adapt to it. Perhaps I see certain types of training as punishments, more than others do. I don't really do "training" so discipline intended to teach is called "punishment" in my book, becasue training just isn't something we do. For example, if I made for dinner something my partner didn't like, he told me he didnt' like it, and then I forgot and made it again weeks later, there would be consequences. I would call those consequences punishment. Some might call them training. As I see it, things that are designed to correct behavior are punishments. Soem are much more serious than others. I mean, making a dinner he didn't like twice is no big deal. I would feel bad about it, and the punishment would make me remember not to do it again. However, I wouldnt' say something like that would require a rethinking of our expectations. However, if I refused to do what he said, or went out and had sex with someone else, the punishment would be dire, and there should be some serious discussion happening there. So, maybe what I call punishment, someone else would call training. ~shrug~
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