LadyJeelys -> RE: what do you all think :submissives have weak personality? (3/16/2008 7:12:35 AM)
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I think it depends. Unfortunately, I've known guys who thought they were "submissive", when really they were folks who needed mental health treatment. Guys who were so overwelmed with life they thought "surrendering" control to a woman would make them happy. These guys will suck the life right out of you, all with the best intentions at heart, but wow. I don't think of these kinds of guys as "submissive", though. Rather, I see guys who are "submissive" as surrendering from a point of strength. They bend because they can and want to, not because they are broken and can't get up. This may not be a popular opinion, but this is why I get creeped out when a guy tells me he "NEEDS" to submit. I'm more comfortable with a guy who says I WANT to submit. When it comes to needs, if something happens and we can't fill that need we die (no air=death; no food=starvation etc). So when a guy tells me he needs to submit, to me he's saying he can't live in the real world where we don't always get the relationships we want. A guy who tells me he wants to submit--yummmmm. This is a guy who can live in the real world, who will survive if our relationship doesn't work (and hopefully won't stalk me, threaten my family, kill my pets or vandalize my home and car). So, no, I don't think submissives have a weak personality. I think submission requires a strong personality that doesn't loose by giving. Yet I can understand the misperception out there because so many folks who have some pretty big life issues seek shelter behind the label "submissive".
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