ownedbyPF
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Wow.. okay I admit, I did not see the word spouse coming! :) After reading some of the replies I can see why you hedged on saying who it was in the first place. I think you have done everything you possibly could to fulfill everyones needs. I recall being married to a vanilla man. He couldn't get into this, oh he would try, but no, it didn't work. There were alot of things I needed him to do, mainly grow the fuck up, but he couldn't do that either :) I remember being at a point where I was trying really hard to accept what he was and what he wasn't. I told myself to look at the positives and forget the rest! Sounded good, but it didn't work because for as much as he couldn't change what he was, and wasn't, I could change what I desperately needed! I'm guessing you were in a similar place and tried to come up with a way for everyone's needs to be met. He went along with it, agreed to it and all the rest and now is esentially backing out. I imagine he didn't outright lie in telling you he could live with this, maybe he really thought he could and is realizing it's way too hard to actually do. Most of us, not all, but many, are wired/taught monogamy. I'm sure in his mind it isn't just the activity of bdsm he can't get around, it's the being with someone that isn't him. I saw what missokyst said about being married to someone that was vanilla that she could serve (paraphrasing) maybe that could work for you, but it doesn't seem likely. I tried that and that's when I realized that the key ingredient in a relationship is respect... and I had to have a tremendous amount of respect towards somone to want to serve etc. I didn't have that for my husband, so it didn't work. Besides I really needed boundaries and discipline.. and I do mean need, a force so strong and compelling in me that I couldn't rest until I had that. (And it's been that way as far as I can remember for me). So, just sayin it doesn't seem likely for you to be able to make that whole thing work, but maybe it could. Maybe you respect your husband still and your needs are probably different than mine... so maybe. So, what do you do? You are discovering it's impossible to make everyone happy. Husband isn't going to just get on over this. I know you're ticked because he agreed, but you can't change what he can live with and what he can't, or what he's willing to live with and what he isn't. And you can't change what you need. It seems to me that's your bottom line, and hard decisions are going to have to be made... and just so you know I don't think the "right" thing for you to do is to say okay fine and be miserable yourself. People grow and people change and shit happens and relationships end and it sucks and it's ugly.... sometimes they don't end and people suck it up, make the best of it and sneak around on the side because they can't take being so stifled.... you are the only one who knows what you can live with. In other words, I don't have any good solutions to offer you, but I don't think you are terrible, I don't think you set out for everything to get all fucked to hell, I think you were trying to make everything okay for everyone and I totally get how this all wound up happening :) Good good good luck! ~s
< Message edited by ownedbyPF -- 2/25/2010 4:30:26 AM >
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