slavegirljoy -> RE: ok, then what IS submissive? (8/6/2008 4:34:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DavidS8ist In essence, one isn't "A submissive". One submits to a particular other person to whom the first can not *not* submit. It's a state of being that may not exist for any other person. Or it can be a state of being elicited by anyone slightly more dominant. Not many enjoy *all* the chores and responsibilities of life. Doing them doesn't make one submissive. Doing them *for* someone probably does (although we get into that blurry "what about the parent doing all those things for a child, does that make the parent the child's submissive" world of specious counter-arguments). This is easy. i'm a mom and i have always done "all those things" for my children and still do but, doing things for them doesn't make me submissive to them. It makes me a mom who believes it's my responsibility to make sure that they are safe, well nourished, well educated and well nurtured, according to my ideas and beliefs, not theirs. i don't bend my will to theirs. i don't comply with their demands. i don't do things for them because they tell me to. In fact, when they try to tell me what they want me to do, i remind them that i am the parent, not vice verse. Like you said, i don't believe i am "a submissive". Rather, i am a submissive woman. Submissive isn't what i am. Submissiveness is one of my many characteristics that makes me who i am. Within my intimate relationships with men, i have always been submissive because i have always complied with the wishes, rules, and demands of the man in my life, whether or not he was into BD/SM or whether or not he was Dominant or whether i agreed with it or liked it or wanted to do it or not. That's just how i am. Being compliant with the man i have entered into an intimate relationship with is something i have always just automatically done. i didn't have to learn to be submissive or be made to submit. If i didn't want to comply to his wishes and do what he wants me to do, i never would get into a relationship with the man to begin with. If i do want to be in a relationship with him, i make myself available to him to use any way he wants. That's just how i have always been with guys. i believe in the man being in charge and me being a willing and obedient helpmate. No one ever had to bring out my submissive nature. It was there from the start and no matter how much i might have tried to change myself to not be submissive, i couldn't. As you said, i cannot "not submit", within my intimate relationship. i have never needed to be Dominated in order to be submissive. But, i do need to be Dominated in order to feel content in my relationship because i need to feel His power over me and know, without a doubt, that He is in charge of me. For that reason, simply being a submissive woman/girl friend/wife/etc. was never enough for me. i needed to belong to a very Dominant man who would take charge of me and Own me. And, now that i have found a Master to own me and use me the way that i need to be used, all is well and life is good. joy Owned servant of Master David
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