CallaFirestormBW -> RE: Masters with Vanilla Primary Relationships (9/7/2008 10:16:08 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TwilightShadows I have a question for the Masters here. I have been inundated as of late with correspondence from men who are Masters living with vanilla women (many married.) The story is often very similar....BDSM is a huge part of who they are, they can't imagine not having D/s in their lives, so they look to submissive women to have as, frankly mistresses in the vanilla meaning of the word. If the need to be a Master or to live one's life that way was so great, how can they abide being in a vanilla relationship, and are they honest men? As a submissive woman who wants one man/master, I don't find this arrangement appealing or beneficial or even remotely fulfilling. Why are submissive women in this scenario expected to forego a traditional relationship - a man in their life day to day - someone at the table next to them on Thanksgiving? I just don't get it. Thank you in advance for your input. Ok, I'm not a "master", and my Darling and I are both strongly dominant women, and enjoy our submissive-type companions... but both of us have had beloveds who were vanilla -- you can love the person and still not have that person be your -everything-... in fact, I think that it is unfair to expect another person to be the 'everything' and 'all' for another person. That's one reason that polyfidelity makes so much sense to me... because I know that I couldn't be everything for my beloveds, and that they, individually, couldn't be everything to me. That doesn't mean that I didn't love them dearly, and have healthy, happy relationships... it just means that some people can offer somethings, others offer something different. As a very blatant example, I have my Darling, had our beloveds, but -none- of them are or were into my favorite forms of blood-play. I never expected them to meet this need of mine... but I am fortunate, because I don't -have- to depend on them for this. I can find someone who -loves- blood-play to share this with, and still love my Darling and any that we accept as our beloveds, vanilla or otherwise, and be completely forthright in my relationship with them, and I can do that because I am forthright about myself and honest about how I interact with the people that I choose to be involved with. Calla Firestorm
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