sravaka -> RE: how soon do you submit? (7/19/2009 7:14:41 AM)
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With all due repect to the OP, this is not rule by committee. There are no right or wrong answers. You do what you feel ok with quote:
ORIGINAL: Mistressbinature quote:
ORIGINAL: daintydimples So you exchange a few nice emails, move onto yahoo or the phone, how soon do you submit? I'm talking things like calling him Sir, giving up control of some small piece of your life. Do you do this right away, if the chemistry is there? Aaargh. Responses like these annoy the hell out of me. Sometimes one posts a question hoping to hear a variety of responses and rationales without any assumption that there is One True Way. (I had no sense that the OP sought a OTW) Having noted that gratuitously.... I'm with various others up thread-- there are (rare) people toward whom I have an immediate submissive reaction. There's no first line decision in it-- something about interacting with the other person simply provokes a desire to obey and please. I think of it as a kind of chemistry. The decision for me is about giving in to that impulse vs. holding back while attempting to assess whether giving in is wise. The current domly one told me in our first week of interacting that I was "under new management." With many, if not most, I would have scoffed. With others (those who provoked the reaction but whom I saw no reason to trust) it might have provoked fear-- how would I balance his expectations with my own need to figure things out and feel safe? With him I was delighted, largely because, despite saying such a thing, he was utterly measured about what sort of submission he required from me at any particular point-- it was always entirely in proportion to my level of comfort (as in, even pushing involved pushing just far enough, but not so far that I had to freak out about it.) I don't as a rule mind small tokens of "submission" even before I've met someone, esp. if the meet is likely to be delayed for some reason (though I don't view these as commensurate with *submission* without the scare quotes). It can (sometimes, at least) provide an opportunity to test how sane/reasonable the other party is, and simply to assess compatibility. It can be no more nor less than a kind of flirting. But if doing so would feel fake (responding to an order for the sake of being agreeable, without feeling a genuine pull) I won't go there. Or do you wait until you meet face to face? With all due repect to the OP, this is not rule by committee. There are no right or wrong answers. You do what you feel ok with
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