Talthas
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You seem to have quite a lot of rules in place. You have, yourself, admitted that you are lazy and don't always feel like coming up with suitable punishments for minor infractions. You have also said (rightly, I believe) that this laxity has produced the feeling in her that some things you tell her are "not important," so she forgets them. So, this is my question: why would you make a rule in the first place if it's not important? As a good Master, you have a responsibility to maintain consistency and stability in your relationship. If you can't summon the motivation to enforce a rule, then you should discard it. It's that simple. If you are not willing to enforce every rule you make, you will quickly erode your authority and you will lose the respect of your slave. This is a general principle of psychology, nothing fancy. Instead of prioritizing rules and giving her very detailed instructions on what is "important" and "not important," you might consider trying to pare down the rules set to the essential set of rules that really *are* important and are never up for debate until you can be sure that she will follow all of the rules consistently. Once she can do that, add more gradually until she can carry out everything you want. It seems you would be better off micromanaging things for a little while and actively giving orders for certain "unimportant" things to be done rather than setting up standing rules about them. If you cannot be bothered with making such orders, then it's obvious that you don't want the thing in question badly enough to make it a permanent rule. If you don't care about something enough to be active about it, why should you let it complicate your slave's life needlessly? Doing that seems cruel and counterproductive. From what I'm seeing, it seems that some of your rules are an attempt to automate some of the parts of a good D/s relationship, or to formalize things that should already happen without needing to have a rule about it. You might want to ask yourself whether you're giving her rules about some things just for the sake of giving rules. Do some deep soul-searching and see if I'm not right. I'm not trying to criticize you or to tell you how to run your relationship. I'm just making some observations about what I've read so far, based on basic psychological principles. I wish you the best of luck.
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