BeIgnited
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Hello OP, I've had some experience dealing with a problem nearly the same as yours. Since you asked for personal experiences, I hope you can get something out of mine. One of a few standing rules my D has for me is to ask him before I go out with friends. He doesn't tell me 'no' for no reason, and I think he's only ever told me not to go out once, when I had to get up early the next morning. We both agreed that it was not necessary (and generally undesirable) to tell my friends about our relationship dynamic. So, I started running into trouble particularly when I was home from school. When I'm home for the summer and not working I generally have a lot of free time to go out and socialize, and my D is about 6 hours away in another state. As I saw it, there was no way to explain to my friends why I needed to check with him before I went out with them. This made doing things on the fly--say, I'm out to lunch with a friend and she asks if I want to go see a movie, I'm stuck waiting for a text message from him before I got the go ahead--very difficult. There would be only so many times I could make excuses for not giving them an immediate answer before they would think something strange was going on (and honestly, I didn't try as hard as I could have). When I did ask him, he generally wanted more information than I could give when plans were tentative. We argued about it a number of times. He thought I was being deliberately disobedient, and I thought he wasn't giving me a way to deal with a problem his rules had created. Eventually, it came to a head, but we were able to reach a compromise. He agreed to relax a bit on the information he needed before he'd give me an answer and is generally ok with me making a good faith decision when I can't get in touch with him, and I've made a conscious effort to keep him more informed about where I want to go and what i want to do.
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