TreasureKY -> RE: another way He Dominates?? (8/13/2008 3:37:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: justjosie ... I am getting the feeling that I am being sent a message here. No idea if you are, and everyone has their own ideas about who should initiate communications in a D/s relationship. However... I suspect you're just seeing the "everyday" man. I may be a bit jaded, but in my experience men are always a little more interested and a little more attentive at the start of any relationship. I hate to say it this way, but to men, women are like anything else new and shiny at the beginning... they are exciting. I've noticed that a man just can't seem to get enough and will go to extra-ordinary lengths to secure what it is they desire... then, once they get what they want or feel the relationship is secured, they slip back into their normal ways. (Women can be this way, too.) It doesn't have to mean they no longer like you or want the relationship, you just aren't as... interesting, or they feel your relationship no longer requires their effort. Or so they think. [;)] I believe most men are also incapable of understanding their own behavior and how it might affect any woman they are involved with. Men generally live in the moment (unless it suits their purposes to do otherwise). Have you ever heard men complain about women having the memories of an elephant... how women will bring up shit from months ago? Based on my observations, it's because once men have moved past the moment, they generally don't consider it anymore... especially when it comes to relationships. lol... Ever known a man who doesn't want to have sex right after a fight? "Hey, the fights over... it's in the past. Let's fuck." [;)] (Okay, women can be like that, too... but often a woman needs time to get past the emotions that a fight has brought up.) Women, on the other hand, seem to have a broader sense of time and events, particularly when it comes to the nuances and emotions of a relationship. We see (and feel) the whole picture of the relationship, not just how it is today. I've also found that men have a tendency to get very upset when you try to point out differences between "then" and "now". I attribute that to their not having the same perspective and generally their not wanting to be made to feel as if they must continue to put out extra effort for something that no longer holds the same interest to them. They'll give all sorts of excuses, say you're imagining things, lay on guilt trips for not "noticing" their current efforts, accuse you of being "needy", threaten to dump you for bringing it up, or just back off even further using your "behavior" as justification. I pretty much came to the conclusion a long time ago that while people will say that relationships take work, they generally don't want to have to keep up the effort. Of course, not all men and women behave this way. It just seems to me to be pretty common. Edited to make it more apparent that I'm speaking from my own perspective and that my comments aren't intended to include all men and all women.
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