CaringandReal -> RE: Not out of submission (3/18/2010 5:51:50 AM)
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How old is the relationship, Allthatjaz? Also, do you feel any erotic feelings when you are "making his life very comfortable?" Sexually, are you always the submissive or do you guys switch? quote:
ORIGINAL: bliss4us09 You say that you would be having words with him if he demanded something you didn't like or tried to assert that he was in charge - that makes me think you're not a sub. The true test of submission is precisely at that point - submitting to something you don't want or enjoy simply because the Dom asked/demanded. But I wonder if this has actually happened yet. It's one thing to say you'd resist and another to actually do it. I tend to agree with the above. With any relationship, bdsm, not, or something in-between, trials tend to bring out the core dynamics because they upset the way you are normally used to doing things or relating to the other person. When everything's "relatively" smooth sailing, the sort of relating you describe, Allthatjaz, is easy and natural, especially with two people who are compatible on a lot of levels, as you two appear to be. When things get rough, and I hope they never do for you, but I suspect they do for all people, sometimes different sides of your personalites emerge. Also, the fact that you both feel burned by submissives becoming emotionally vulnerable under extensive control is a salient point, IMO. I think you may both be specifically avoiding that with each other, because it didn't work for either of you in past relationships. (It does work, spectacularly in fact, for some power exchanges, btw, just not for all.) I've known a few couples similar to yourselves, very personally compatible and also burned out with standard kinky people and the resulting relationships. Sometimes such people, especially if they've emerged from some really ugly personal experiences, feel a strong need not to put a label on happiness, when they find it, for fear of harming it. While this is not rational (it gives words far more power than they deserve, in my opinion) I've always experienced this desire not to label or be labeled to be a wholesome and quite useful attitude to assume in such a circumstance. If something's practical and it works, there's no need to mess with the "whys" of it or others' opinions that it "shouldn't" work because of rationale a, b, or c. I choose to live a very different sort of life (I am one of those "emotionally vulnerable" sorts who seeks out those who are "too"--could there be such a thing, lol?--controlling, but one who remains consciously rational and self-observing during the process) and I can't count the number of times I heard, about my master and I, "that relationship cannot work." So I just smiled to myself and thought, except it does, and has, for so very many years. NihilusZero said: "It brings up an interesting thought: at the point where a D/s or M/s relationship has arrived at enough attunement, it may not seem like it anymore. At the point where I can see my slave's thoughts, views and decisions mirroring where mine would go, there isn't necessarily the need for dominance of submission because we've already arrived at a place where the values and results are mutually understood." I've experienced that before. It caused a crisis relatively early (year five or six?) in my former relationship. From the submissive point of view, this attunement (which is perfectly natural in compatible people who are very intimate) feels like the dominant is slacking off, not controlling you anymore. If you need control, erotically and/or emotionally, that can make one feel very unhappy. For someone who doesn't need to feel put in her place or seflishly used or trodden upon (smile), this may not be a big deal. But it was to me and may be to people who thrive on a short leash. In that situation, my dominant resolved the conflict by sitting me down and taking several hours to point out to me how severely and strictly my life and decisions were actually curtailed. He literally went on for hours, listing all the ways my life was differnt than a vanilla woman's, even a happy vanilla woman in a traditional relationship. It was... convincing. I had just lost track of that fact, and continued to lose track of it in the future, though never as badly as that first time. We were just very attuned (I'd adopted all of his values and goals as my own), he had an easygoing, relaxed style of dominance, and for many years, fate smiled upon us and things went so smoothly. It was quite easy to forget that I was controlled in so many big and small ways.
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