antipode
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Joined: 4/19/2004 Status: offline
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Define successful to me. Being able to hang on to a sub? Being able to hang on to you? Being able to get rid of a sub, and move on? Being able... but you get my drift. I have no real connection with calling someone a "whore" or "slut". I expect my sub to be both a whore and a slut, but on the odd occasion when I use that terminology it would typically be when I am using or repossessing her, in an affectionate sort of way. I do not go out of my way to "show respect", if my putting up with her, and taking care of her needs, are insufficient to her, she's got a problem. If I wanted vanilla, I'd have stayed there, but I don't. And often, one can't win. I recall the partner who was upset I wasn't jealous when she eventually told me she had been having an affair; no matter how I explained that possessiveness is a destructive mode of behaviour, to her my lack of jealousy was a clear sign of non-love. Maybe she was right, and I am not good at that love thing, but I care, and for me that is good enough. If that isn't good enough for her, I am successful, because clearing the cobwebs is much more of a measure of success than making them look good and hanging on to them. Ahem. I don't often use that many words. And I guess the answer is: I don't. It's boring. Next!
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