silkenfire
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Going back to some of the original ideas of this thread (I just read the whole 5+ pages and that's a lot to remember what I was going to say..) When it comes to play outside of the relationship, I believe context is important. For example, if there is a party of many close friends... say a birthday party... and say someone gets tied to a cross publicly and everyone takes turns giving birthday spankings -- I have a hard time considering that cheating, especially if the significant other is present. But it's all what the couple is comfortable with. Master does not like the idea of sharing me at all. In fact, he was very wary about the idea of me even kissing my friends -- I told him very early on that kissing is a very normal hello for me with *certain* groups of my friends, and to tell me no wouldn't work. At some point along the line, I would slip up, or see someone I'm like that with and forget to have told them, etc. Master finally agreed, after much discussion and explanation and convincing that I was not going to run away with someone just because of a hug or a quick kiss that it "might be ok". So I took him to meet my friends and stay with my old roommate DieSchadenfreude, and things wound up going way past the "quick kiss" idea and into some interesting play (not sexually) that surprisingly Master did not mind. I kept turning to him to ask "are you sure this is ok". I am one for emotional monogamy but when it comes to scening, especially public scening among friends, I've never had a problem with it. I'm very careful to watch Master's boundaries though -- I know that he has stricter boundaries than I would expect, and as we are still in our beginning stages they aren't hard boundaries and fluctuate based on the situation. Personally, I have been in way too many vanilla relationships over the last 4 years (I've known full well that I am a masochistic submissive for 7 years.) Therefore, play parties with my friends, or mild scening with my friends, such as DieSchadenfreude, although outside of a relationship was my only release in that way. Yet, I have never lied to someone I was in a relationship with, about my tendencies and about what I was doing. I think it helped that a lot of my play outside relationships were with a female and many men seem to think their girlfriend with another girl is hot. I'm not sure why. In terms of within a relationship that included a D/s dynamic -- I would say my relationship now is my only real experience. As such, Master sets the rules. He does so not because he is my Master and I follow him blindly, but because he is the one in our relationship that is averse to outside play. I do not cheat, I seek a set of rules and apply myself within them. I would be willing to attempt to not hug/kiss my friends casually if he wanted me to. The reason I convinced him otherwise was fear that I would not succeed, and I did not want to wind up having to tell him I had cheated. Time for me to stop writing a book here... I know I had more points but this is way too long.
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