stella41b
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Joined: 10/16/2007 From: SW London (UK) Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: lusciouslips19 I am suprised no one mentioned this but within 1 week or even a few more you should not be under consideration of anyone. Would you be engaged to a man you never met in person? Under a collar of consideration, with someone staking claim to you without you knowing each other is foolish. how many others wear his"collar of consideration"? Did you know when I was here my first week, I was asked to waer a collar of consideration in a first e-mail? At this point you should be investigating, finding out character, and checking his statements and info given, just making sure he is who he says he is. leave this whole 'consideration collar thing where it belongs. if this isnt a mutual decision in life, I dont know what is. I see the point here but I beg to differ. If you need to investigate someone to verify what they're saying then you're clearly not dealing with the right person. Trust is inspired in someone, as is confidence. Being sceptical of anyone and everyone approaches you is just as foolish as jumping in with both feet and not taking any safeguards. I feel there's an element of personal responsibility here which should be mentioned. Life doesn't hold any guarantees and people don't come with money back guarantees either. Each time you enter into a personal relationship you take a risk and make an investment. It's in your best interests to calculate that risk and assess what level of investment of time and energy you're prepared to put into that relationship, but this is surely dependent on how much trust and confidence that person has managed to inspire in you. You can't minimize the risk of entering into a relationship, you cannot guarantee your investment, and you cannot expect the other person to shoulder the responsibility for the relationship. You have to be responsible too. You have to share the risks involved as well. If that person hasn't inspired enough trust and confidence in you in their approach then they probably never will. You just giving it time and 'checking them out' is accepting second best, compromising your own position, you're fooling yourself and in such a situation I'm sorry, but you deserve everything you get. How do you spot a fake Dom? Well I could write here 'suck it and see'. You're never going to get into that relationship or start developing something until you give someone a chance. That is, unless you really are a clairvoyant or mindreader. Most people aren't, they give people chances, take risks, and find out afterwards. It's called life. People get deceived, cheated, fooled, misled. Some other people call them stupid. I call them human. How about not worrying about a fake Dom and focus more on finding a good Dom? When you find a good Dom give him a chance and take it from there. He might not be the right Dom, but then again he might. Relationships are all about illusion, reality and perception. You can be deceived, but then again you can deceive yourself just as easily and deceive someone else without intending to do so or even being aware of it. It's a sad fact that a lot of people lose contact with reality in this community. They see BDSM as the alternative lifestyle, the one which is all accepting, all understanding, the panacea for everything that has ever been wrong in their lives, a better way to get your jollies or your kicks. Some throw themselves into it so much that if it were a major religion they'd be well on their way to achieving Nirvana or joining the Taliban. These are the people you have to watch out for. This is about the only safeguard you have, in setting standards about what you're prepared to accept and not, being open and honest and expecting the same in return, in being grounded in reality and making sure that whoever you're with has the same or a similar perception to you regarding the situation and what you both expect from the relationship.
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