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MsStarlett -> I'm back, again... I think... (2/15/2010 5:18:05 AM)

I apologize to the Ladies for being such a Yo-Yoing, indecisive, basket case.  I didn't see a "February Roll Call"... so pardon me for starting up a new thread while you're at it. 

Truth of the matter is that I've been 'ill'.  I believe I mentioned before leaving that I was having some hormonal issues.  Menopause has always been such a taboo subject, that I had no clue what the hell was wrong with me when I started having symptoms.  My Aunt Flo still visits every month, so that couldn't have been the problem!  But it was.  And it crept up on me so slowly that I didn't see it.  But the hormonal imbalances made me crazy.  Ladies and gentlemen, in case no one ever told you about it... let me clue you in.  It's different for every woman.  It can come early or later in life.  It can hit all at once or it can sneak up on you... making you think that your emotional nightmare is justified via circumstances... but it's not.

For me, I think it started as long as a year ago.  Looking back, I can see the signs.  It was never an 'all the time' sort of thing, just every now and then, I would be up half the night because it was to hot to sleep while my husband isn't having issues with this ungodly hot room.  And I've always been a 'passionate' woman.  I've always had strong emotional attachments.  It was 'normal' for me to be giddy when having fun, or loving someone or some thing deeply, or being crushed when things went wrong... but this was something different.  It was like someone had turned up the volume on all my emotions to maximum overload.  Good and bad.  They were slowly taking control... very much like a teenager.  I just didn't see it.

My best beloved Westie broke off our D/s relationship when he found his One true Love who lives in his town - not a 4 hour drive away like me.  I knew I should be happy for him and to let him go lead a happy life.  But I also felt I had a RIGHT to be angry about that and depressed.  He deserved to be yelled at until he wouldn't speak to me anymore... which only made me angrier and more depressed because he told me "Why would I want to speak to you?  All you ever do is cry or yell at me these days."

Then 'Nextie' came along.  A very nice man who had been out of the BDSM scene for a long time.  If I had eased him back into it, he possibly could have been a very good pain slut for me, but I couldn't handle it.  My ramped up emotions made me unbalanced and possibly unsafe.  The fact that he came to me for a beating made me believe that he needed to be the whipping post for all the implied sins that any man had ever inflicted upon me.  The fact that I was pushing him past his limits, that I was torturing him was a GOOD thing?  Right?  These boards tell us such things all the time.  PUSH that sub until he cries or screams his safe word.  It's what he WANTS!  Isn't it?  The anguish on his face delighted me more than I could possibly imagine before.  It was delightful and I wanted more and more of it.  And he left.  In fact, he claimed he was leaving the lifestyle, but I see his account is still here.  I think he just got smart and knew that I had become unbalanced.

I didn't notice that I had a real, uncontrollable problem until I started 'yelling' at a very nice boy on World of Warcraft and basically blaming him for every thing that ever went wrong in my life.  That was when I marched myself straight to the drug store and got Estroven.  That helped A LOT!  And reading up on the internet about all the crazy symptoms of menopause that no one ever told me about - like dry skin that makes you feel like something is crawling on you....  It all started making sense and I knew I was unhinged.  But I was working on it.

And YES - I apologized profusely to West, who now speaks to me now and then and we have forged a new type of friendship.  I apologized to Next, who no longer hates me... or at least I don't think he does.  *shrug*  He's a very smart man.  I highly recommend him as a sub.  I apologized to Gryn on WoW who is still a very dear friend and we hang out and play frequently.

I thought I was getting myself back on track...  Then I got hit with the normal flood of "Do Me" subs.  Ladies, we all know about them.  They drive us all crazy.  But I wanted a replacement sub so badly that I started talking to them.  All of them.  I was talking to so many that I couldn't keep them straight in my head.  The only thing all of these males pretending to be subs wanted was Sex.  All of them.  None of them wanted ANYTHING but sex.  In the entire lot, it didn't seem that there was ONE who actually wanted to do anything the least bit uncomfortable to them, even though that was all I wanted.  (Which, in retrospect was a very good thing that no others showed up on my doorstep.) 

I got flooded with 'sub males' who didn't want ANYTHING that I wanted... they only wanted me to conform to THEIR fantasies.  I would get the ones who would say, "You can spank me a little and make me dress up like a little girl and suck your other sub's dick and then you can BOTH fuck me up the ass. And you can call me names when I cry because it hurts."   IE - He's gay but doesn't want to BE gay... so he's not a 'fag' if a woman FORCES him into have a homosexual relationship.  He doesn't want anything to do with a FemDom, he just wants me to set up a lot of gay orgies for him.  Wrong.

Then there are the "I don't want to do anything that hurts.  I just want you to lock me in my CB and then be my free live porn sex doll who struts around and rubs herself all over me!  Then you can tell me to beat off in the corner."  Wrong.

Or the "I don't want to do anything useful or actually show up, I just want you to type to me in intimant detail all the sexy things you're going to wear and do when I get there."  Wrong.

Or "I'm a full service slave.  I'll draw your bath, wash you all over, shave everything, hold your towel for you and give you a great all over body massage when you're done.  What? You want me to wash the dishes, fix your car, paint your dungeon, or mow the lawn?  No.  I don't do any kind of actual physical labor.  I just want to get naked with you and put my hands all over you while I drool on you.  And I know that I do it SO well that you're going to force me to have sex."  Wrong.

Or "I want to be your 24/7 live in.  I don't want to get a job and work for a living.  I want to move into your house and watch your cable TV and play on your internet while you're out making money to support my lazy ass."  Wrong.

It seemed like every man who spoke to me was only looking to push his own agenda on me.  Even with the Estroven, that made me crazy.  It made me angry and depressed.  So I just went away.  I couldn't deal with the stress of so many needy people yapping at my heals all the time.  None of them wanted to do what I wanted to do to relieve my stress, they only wanted to pile more and more on me, so I just stopped reading the garbage.

So, I'm back.  I'm back with the traditional "Pissy Domme" profile that all the sub males hate.  But, you know what?  Tough shit.  If a guy doesn't want to be hit, then I don't need him.  I'm here because I'm married to a man who doesn't fulfill that one need in my life.  If another man doesn't want to satisfy my sadistic hungers, then I don't have time for him.  If he doesn't 'click' with me on some personal level, then I don't want to spend time with him.  If we DO form some sort of friendly bond, if he DOES fulfill my sadistic needs, then the sexy stuff will naturally follow.  But if all a 'sub male' wants is to skip over all the friendship and relationship stuff... then he can just go hire a Pro Domme to beat him or a Prostitute to fuck him.  It ain't going to be ME because I am neither.








PeonForHer -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/15/2010 6:06:48 AM)

Hey hon, it's damned good to see you.  Catch you later.  [;)]




LadyHibiscus -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/15/2010 7:28:56 AM)

Glad to see you back, I missed you!! I keep praying for menopause myself, but no doubt have another ten years to wait. Hmph.





pyroaquatic -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/15/2010 9:26:55 AM)

Well howdy Ms. Starlett. Pleasure to have you back. We all have to take our holidays in one form or another.

:3

Pieces!





MsStarlett -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/16/2010 4:06:36 AM)

*smooches*

Sorry about the long ramble.... but I had just sent most of that story to Peon and didn't want to have to type it out a dozen times.  This was just easier than explaining it all to each of my friends individually.

The long and short of it is that I felt I could not control a relationship until I could get control of myself.




LadyHibiscus -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/16/2010 8:49:15 AM)

You are such a smart person, MsStarlett!! {HUGSES!}




Lockit -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/16/2010 9:05:14 AM)

Welcome Back!




LaTigresse -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/16/2010 9:12:07 AM)

Yes welcome back!

And from a veteran of the hormonal hell. There is light at the end of the tunnel. I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to have done it early and be past the worst. I still get the occasional "God dammit it's a fucking sauna in here!!" moment. And RLS if I've not been eating, drinking and exercising properly. And I am not at all thrilled about the skin changes, thank god for it being 2010 with fabulous anti-aging products and the wonders of Burt's Bees body butter.

I actually think the (cover your eyes anyone that does not want TMI!!!!!!!!!!!) changes in sex drive and vaginal structure, for lack of better words, are the most bothersome for me.




BMTlooking -> welcome back (2/16/2010 11:46:05 AM)

we all have our ups and downs good to know that your back




LadyOddsworth -> RE: welcome back (2/16/2010 2:05:32 PM)

Menopause is sooo fun!




MsStarlett -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/17/2010 4:14:45 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: LaTigresse
changes in sex drive


Now ain't that fun???  Gees!  I went through months when I didn't even think about sex.  I mean, it just didn't cross my mind.  However, when I would give in to my husband's needs, the orgasms were AMAZING!  I'm talking the most earth shaking, mind blowing experiences of my life.  One would think that if the sex got that much better, I would want it all the time... but I really didn't.  So very strange.  That is now evening out again.

A lady friend went through all of this early because a medical condition caused her to need a chemically induced 'change' before she was 30 years old.  She said that diet and exercise would help.  I've been trying to watch what I eat a little better.  Lord knows my worst symptoms were during Christmas when I was baking cookies and making candy for my family and friends.  I was eating WAY to much of it!  Not only did I gain weight, I was getting crazier and more and more stressed out and lethargic. 

One of the ladies sent me a PM to get my blood sugar checked.  I never even thought of that.  I'll be working on that right away!

It's so true.  In this youth loving society, we women are so afraid to talk about this part of our lives.  We don't like to talk about getting older.  But getting older is so much better than 'getting dead'.  I'm all for "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."  So Bring it on!  I intend to live the rest of my life being just as 'hawt' as I ever was.  I just needed some 'me time' to get over the onset.  And I'll probably still have plenty of Crying Jags and Temper Tantrums to come.... But when those wonderful Giddy, Excited or Loving moments arrive, I plan on enjoying them thoroughly. 




LadyPact -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/17/2010 11:52:10 PM)

Forgive the delay.  Allow Me to join the chorus of folks welcoming you back.

You do bring up something that is one of the few areas where female Dominants have a different experience than their male counterparts.  Menopause is a very real medical condition and I am absolutely convinced that it can sneak up on someone without them knowing it.  If Aunt Flo doesn't stop visiting, we don't always think of that as the explanation for the other symptoms we might be experiencing.

I haven't hit that stage of life yet Myself, but I have absolutely had My own issues that were solely feminine.  I'll skip them here, as I don't want to derail the thread.  However, medical issues that are specific to women only are very real and they absolutely do exist.  Any period of time where we undergo significant hormonal changes is bound to have an effect.  We are no different in our vanilla counterparts in this.






Drifa -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/18/2010 6:33:10 AM)

Being perimenopausal then having a hysterectomy, I think I know what those "nervous breakdowns" people used to have really were. And this is in the era of hormone replacement therapy and Prozac, good lord, what must it have been like without?

One of the cruel realities of western culture is that we do not talk about the experiences of women's aging process. Instead, once a woman gets past "ingenue" we seem to become invisible, or if visible there's none of the issues of aging on display. At 30, the root canals start. At 40, my arms became too short to read fine print (I needed bifocals). Nearing 50, the baby factory has been removed and now I am in the lovely land of hot flashes.

None of my elder female relatives talked about these things. No one mentioned crepe-like skin. Or chin hairs. I knew about hot flashes because my mother kept the house cold enough to hang meat.  I think when women start experiencing these things we don't discuss them or admit to them because suddenly we feel less desirable, less feminine, less human. It would have been less of a shock had I expected these things. But all the women in my family apparently were plucking hairs and having electrolysis on the sly. So I thought I'd developed lycanthropy in middle age!

Although I am myself not a Wiccan, I do like the idea of "owning" all the stages of Maiden, Mother and Crone. Instead of experiencing middle age as some big negative, I'm learning it and living it and accepting some of the "witchy" aspects of being the Evil Old Hag while reveling in being the Wise Woman also. I also like the fact that "cougar" has become a common term in our society - objectifying as "cougar" and "MILF" are, it's a social acknowledgment that "women of a certain age" can still be extremely sexy.




LadyHibiscus -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/18/2010 8:59:10 AM)

I keep hoping for menopause, but of course it hasn't hit. In my family... well... I should START sometime around age 55. Let's hope all those hormones in the food speed things up, shall we? I am looking forward to cronehood, no more endometriosis, huzzah!! I also am getting the jump start by working on the diet, etc. My blood sugar is miraculously NORMAL in spite of diabetes on both sides of the family, and my general health is great (aside from the chronic autoimmune stuff lol) so I am hopeful all will go well.

In spite of that, my motto for the next fifteen years or so is I BLAME THE MENOPAUSE!~!. It should explain everything!




MaamJay -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (2/25/2010 4:48:25 AM)

Welcome back Starlett and wow, I echo all those things about menopause. I'm sick to death of Aunt Flo though now she's finally becoming less regular in her visitations. Though that means I can have apparent ovulation pains 3 days running and a visit 5 days later! Doesn't add up at all with My knowledge of the biological basics. I'm lucky in only occasionally having hot flushes, Mine are more usually at night, when it's more obvious. Australia can be so hot it's hard to notice by day! So far not TOOO bad on the mood swings, My mother went completely off the rails for a while. I think Master would be marching me to a Dr if things got beyond what He can handle!

However, the best thing I did 3 years ago was to go with a girlfriend (first time) to "Menopause the Musical". It was just awesome, an incredibly clever, funny and overall uplifting look at menopause. Here in Aus it was a fine cast of 4 talented women and wow could they ever sing (as a singer, I was impressed!). I came home and raved about it, so Master said (god love Him) "OK, take Me!" Now, remember, He's 15 years younger than me, so at 35 (at the time), He was undoubtedly the youngest of the relatively few men in the room! He was also just about the only one with hair ... and He has lovely long wavy (heavy metal guitarist style) hair! And as We were sitting in the 3rd row He got singled out for some special (but complimentary) attention from the cast. He absolutely loved the show, laughed like crazy and it has made Him so much more understanding of the changes that are happening. We bought the CD and when a track comes on the random shuffle on the iPod, We both crack up laughing all over again. I think it was absolutely the best way to be educated about this phase of life!

Maam Jay aka violet[A]




Vendaval -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (3/1/2010 3:16:43 AM)

Glad to see you back. Sorry that the hormonal changes have been so rough. The advice about nutrition and exercise is very worthwhile. Take good care of your sweet and feisty self.




slvemike4u -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (3/1/2010 2:44:42 PM)

Welcome back Ms Starlett...sorry to hear that you had such a rough patch.....but i totally agree with the maxim"does not kill us,makes us stronger".




blackpearl81 -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (3/4/2010 5:39:14 PM)

Pffft - You'll never scare me away.


Nice try though. [:)]

(Btw - I renewed my WoW account too, but with this temp working gig with CitiBank, I can only play at nights - for an hour at most - or during the weekends)




MsStarlett -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (3/7/2010 5:02:08 AM)

Ah, my sweet little Pearl.  You do have this amusing habit of rolling away and hiding for a bit, then coming back into the light when least expected.  Personally, I'm not dodging you.  I've been extremely busy lately and haven't been on the computer much.  I did a local Convention the middle of February, a business convention in Chicago the next weekend, working my ass off trying to hit odd deadlines at work, doing a movie promotion for my local theater and meeting with my long time boy Wall-e this week.  I R TIRED!  Thank ghod for Estroven!




sirsholly -> RE: I'm back, again... I think... (3/7/2010 8:56:55 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus

You are such a smart person, MsStarlett!! {HUGSES!}
not to mention courageous for making this post. (((((hug)))))




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