liminalRapture
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DoctorYale, I took my ad down this weekend after another man started talking to me, shared vulnerabilities, talked about our fears at work and life and our bodies and what we think about whether or not there is a God and how we feel about that. The he dropped the little fact of his wife. I don't know why anyone would think I would have so little respect for marriage that I would be a party to something like that. I simply never will. The man I fell for before that I met here and he is a lovely human being, but just doesn't want a relationship in his life right now. He was totally honest, but confused because he said basically he didn't think someone like me existed and he wished we met a while ago, or were closer in ages, and he said "you don't belong on CM and you won't find what you are looking for on CM because men go there for play; they don't go there for women they respect." That made me really question (not just him, a number of incidents that played into a narrative that he is describing). And so this weekend, I took my ad off CM and took one on eharmony. I do mention "GGG" and that I'm looking for "A good man with a wicked streak who will do unspeakable things to me if we get there." I don't know if it will work. I thought I'd fully accepted this part of myself, but I'm not willing to settle for 'play' or anything that kills my soul like that. Fundamentally, I can't. I have a puritanical streak that I don't like, but it is true. I need a committed relationship before sex is brought out. Maybe I'll put my CM ad back up after I figure out the right journal entry, but the men lying, the men treating me like a sexual object only, it numbs my soul a little bit. I think on eharmony the men are just pretending to act the way they think women want them to (just as I think the ethos here is one closer to what men want) and I want to find something where we can both be honest and true. Where we can figure out our erotic ticklings, even as we work to figure out who we are voting for next Tuesday, whether the same things make us laugh and whether we can communicate difficulties fully. I am absolutely "a real woman, proud, self confident, intelligent, attractive, interesting and intellectually challenging and who is a sexual submissive and as sexual and erotic as" well as any man I've known. In vanilla life, I can absolutely keep up with anyone, and that includes US Senators and Pulitzer Prize winners. Hell--I'm in 3 of the Who's Who in America books this year and have been reviewed in the NY Times. But it is like I have to pick a part of myself. Do I want to be the charming, intelligent, smart as hell, quite accomplished women who only takes orders from the Secret Service, or do I want to be kneeling before someone who will relish in my surrender and protect me as I let go of all protections myself? I can't imagine committing before a God (whom I don't even know if I believe in) that I will have only this one person as my sexual partner if he didn't satisfy me. But I couldn't be his partner if all the other stuff didn't work too. And I wonder, if a vanilla man found me as a partner, and cherished me. Maybe he could find the part of himself that thrived on control. I don't need bruises, just surrender and control. Maybe that is easier than finding a man who thrives on control and trying to get him to cherish me. It feels like women (or maybe it is subs?) are treated as interchangeable, generic others too often here.
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"Ring the bells that can still ring. Forget your perfect offering. There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen.
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