MistressFaye1 -> RE: Am I faithful or stupid? (11/25/2008 2:58:10 AM)
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I totally agree with your post. In the past and recently I've had conversations with submissives, exploring and on the journey of self discovery. I continue to be surprised at the number of them (male and female) that have been told, they were told by someone, "in order to be a good submissive you have to submit to any and everything your Domme/Dom tells you to." Because they are new, no matter the age in some cases, they believe it and will subject themselves to whatever the "dominant" wants. Rather than discuss it, negotiate, and set limits, the tendancy seems to be they stop seeing the person---as in do a disappearing act. It isn't until they become educated to the fact, there are such things as limits and they have the right to express them, incidents like what the OP experienced stops happening to them. Whether that "education" came as the result of continued negative experiences or because they finally found a dominant that took the time to explain, teach, guide, and allowed exploration is critical to how a submissve views him/herself. IMHO, it is the dominant's responsibility to take into consideration the experience of the submissive and act accordingly. I doubt that any of us, dom or sub came into this lifestyle knowing what our limits were or "experienced" in either role. We learned from trail and error, "doing", being true to ourselves as we discovered how and what makes us tick and by the good and not so good experiences. I am forever grateful to my mentor who once told me "being a Mistress/Domme, comes with great responsibilities for you can build up a person or destroy them." There were lengthy conversations; with various examples and themes centered around the statement throughout my mentorship. That was 34 years ago (damn, has it been that long?) and I still hold the statement as my primary guide. I don't assume anything (i.e. he will tell me initially, on his own) what his limits are. For some they may not even know what they are, therefore I choose to get to know the person past what they tell me, if I find there is real potential to develop a D/s relationship present. I would not spring anything like what happened to the OP on someone I didn't know very well.
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