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ORIGINAL: wordstoponder

Was just browsing my bookmarks of Lifestyle links and stumbled upon this list of thought-provoking "needs".  You can access the website here: http://www.esodom.com/quarters/slaveneeds.htm.  I feel that this list of needs is important for everyone in the Lifestyle to keep in their mind, whether slave or submissive, dominant or Master.

The need for unconditional love and acceptance.

The need for certainty and permanence.

The need for discipline in every sense of the word.
   (What is every sense of the word?  I don't understand)

The need to have the little and scared girl whom you are recognized
and accepted and loved for herself.

The need for containment and clear boundaries of behavior.

The need for consistent and logical consequences for behavior.

The need to feel open and unembarrassed gratitude.

The need for careful guidance.

The need to know that you are not in control and cannot successfully
manipulate your owner.
   (I feel that this is important for me because there are times when I have crazy depressive episodes and attempt to manipulate the Man I'm with, and instead of caving in, I need Him to remain in control and to put me in my place)

The need to serve your owner.
   (Is this a "need" or is it only a strong desire?)

The need for your owner to appreciate and to support your
enthusiasms wherever he thinks that they should be supported.
   (In other words, the Owner needs to encourage the "slave" (submissive, whatever) to pursue their interests and passions, whether or not they are within their own personal interests)

The need to know that your service pleases your owner emotionally
and practically and sexually.

The need to know that you are neither required nor permitted to try
to dominate yourself and that your owner will provide the force to
take you and to own you.
   (I have issues with this particular point.  A submissive/slave should be able to take care of herself, whether or not she/he is owned)

The need to be certain that your owner will not withdraw from you
emotionally.

The need to be completely opened up and naked before your owner and
to know that you will never be permitted to hide.

The need to be certain that your owner does not lie to you and does
not hide from you.

The need to be tiny and safe at your owner's feet.
   (The "need" to be tiny?)

The need to feel overwhelmed by your owner.
   (Overwhelmed, how?)

The need to know that your owner does not fear you in any way and
that he does not edit his requirements of you so as to be limited to
only those things that you already want to do.

The need to know that your owner will make you face the hard things
and not let you run away from them but that he will handle the
things that you simply cannot.
   (Very important!)

The need to be stroked and reassured and praised but never in a
pandering way.

The need to be as sure of your owner's benevolence as you are of his
ownership of you.

The need to know with certainty that your owner takes great joy and
derives enormous satisfaction from owning you and using you.

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ORIGINAL: LadyHathor

geesus ladies, someone pee in your wheaties today??
 
 
Sure may not be for you but a new poster, expressing THEIR opinion--and asking some reality check questions.

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ORIGINAL: LadyHathor

geesus ladies, someone pee in your wheaties today??
 
 
Sure may not be for you but a new poster, expressing THEIR opinion--and asking some reality check questions.

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I wonder how many subs who would embrace a dominant who said he/she needed all of those things as well?

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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross

I wonder how many subs who would embrace a dominant who said he/she needed all of those things as well?

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ORIGINAL: ownedgirlie

I usually don't like lists like these, but...I kinda liked this one!  Not everything on it applied to me but a lot did, surprisingly enough.

Of course, creating a relationship of any kind takes a lot more effort that creating a list, but for some reason this one reasonated with me.  Must be my mood...or my flu.