Drifa
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Joined: 7/27/2007 From: Rural Texas Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance I have had occaision to be amused (baffled) by how often people are encouraged or advised to be service tops, when the situation is about a submissive wanting or needing something that his or her partner isn't really oriented toward providing. I went and read through the exemplar threads. I actually don't see anything wrong with the vanilla partner providing service topping every so often. If both partners are communicating, and are in Dan Savage's terms GGG, then adopting a compromise wherein both of them get some of what they want is not a bad thing. If you value the relationship more than the kink, you will compromise so that you get some kink and preserve the relationship. Merc and beth (lord, that feels strange typing it lower case, hope that's right y'all) asked why there appears to be a double standard recommending doms "suck it up" and do what the sub needs more than the other way around. I honestly think that in either case the couple should be talking and possibly seeking relationship counseling. I also have to point out that it doesn't usually hurt to swing the whip or paddle at someone, whereas these things do hurt to receive, so that in a case where a couple has a submissive partner wanting the other to top them, that's easier to accommodate than the reverse scenario in which a dominant partner wants to dish out a spanking to a nilla parner who doesn't like funishment. I still think that whenever you get a mis-match like this, the couple needs to talk. They need to discover whether the relationship can or should be saved at all. If they decide to continue it, then the one interested in kink has to either give up kink, or the relationship has to allow them to get their kink somewhere. Consider instead when happens to a heterosexual married couple when one of the partners discovers in mid-life that they really are gay. In rare instances, I've seen these couples stay married and make it work, but that's really, really, perishingly rare. When people have nonstandard sexual urges of any sort, many times we stuff those down and repress the hell out of them until we're finally so miserable we have to either admit the sexuality or explode. And I think sometimes discover their need for kink late. If you are already in a vanilla relationship, what do you do then? Now, back to the exemplar situations, if the kink partner demands the other person "convert" to a full time dominant, then that's unfair of them to ask and really an unrealistic expectation. Everyone in the relationship should get their needs met some of the time, and the nilla partner ISN'T if he or she is having to service top all the time.If the kink partner has to have more domination than their vanilla partner can or is willing to provide, it's time to reevaluate the relationship and either seek a compromise or end it.
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