leadership527 -> RE: Suggestions for rewards (8/10/2008 3:42:34 PM)
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Slave says "no" (decline one command) You call the shots (the evening is yours) You are forgiven (no punishment) Yeah, I had some trouble with these rewards. They sound to me like you are rewarding her by lifting the D/s dynamic for a bit, or at least parts of it, as if it were an imposed burden. I would find this troubling. That would be it exactly. In this particular relationship, these things are going to work as rewards (I think) for the following two reasons... a) She (and I for that matter), have only been doing this for 9 months. The "role adoption" is far from complete. In addition, neither one of us places the M/s dynamic as particularly high on our priority list so the idea of setting it down momentarily is not very disturbing. I have learned to my detriment *laughs* that a discussion of permanently stopping it will get a much stronger negative reaction from her. b) My particular sub places high value on the "gate being open" (her analogy). I think that things like this allow her to visualize the freedom she already has more clearly and force her to think about the fact that it always has been and always will be entirely her choice. Personally, I suspect that if I gave her any of those three cards, they might never come back to me... she might just squirrel them away in a safe place to help herself see that she has choice. I can guarantee that the cards wouldn't come out in any sort of extreme situation (the punishment one, for instance, would never be used in any serious case where I had actually been made either angry or offended). She wouldn't want to cheese out on an important moment any more than I would.
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