BitaTruble
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This is a thread about compliance. I'm really not interested in the gory details of what you may order or be ordered, inspired etc. to do, but rather how it makes you feel when you comply or when your partner complies with such an order. S-types: If it's something that you like, does it elate you, feed you, nurture you, make you happy, silly.. something else? Do you need to process those kinds of feelings or just embrace them with gratitude and move on to the next thing. Something else? What about doing things which you neither like nor dislike? Does it leave you feeling ambivalent since you neither like nor dislike a given instruction or direction with which to comply? Are those the sorts of feelings which you need to process or do they just wash over you without lasting impact? Do you have feelings at all on these things that you are to do for your dom which are more in the *eh* category. (Hoping this makes sense!) And last, how about those things which are very hard for you or you specifically do not like to do but have agreed to do for whatever reason? Do you get physical reactions from the feelings? Upset stomach, headaches or something which a strong adverse feeling to compliance may bring on you? Perhaps you don't really feel anything but go into auto mode to get the job done which is expected of you? Something very different? D-types: Sort of the same sorts of questions but obviously exactly the opposite. What feelings go through you when you see your commands carried out in a happy manner as opposed to one where your s-type is obviously struggling. What about commands which don't appear to cause any reaction at all? Does it matter what is felt, internally, by the s or does the reaction of the s not matter as long as the directive is obeyed? Do you take pride when your s carries out a difficult task even if they had to struggle or do you get annoyed or irritated they had to struggle at all? Something else? To answer for myself; if I carry out a directive which makes me happy because I like doing X, I just enjoy the happy feelings for what they are and I do appreciate being given that opportunity for those times. An example would be if Himself had me cook him a specific meal because he really likes the way I cook that meal. That makes me very, very happy since I love to cook and cooking is not just for his pleasure.. it brings me a great deal of pleasure as well. When I am cooking something that I am assured he's going to enjoy, you will actually hear me humming as I putter around the kitchen and I'll have a big grin on my face when I set it before him. When I carry out a directive in which I am not invested one way or the other, especially if it is something which I don't need to put any brain power into or it's just some sort of robotic action like ironing shirts for a business trip, my mind will tend to wander while my body complies and completes the action. The thing is, even in those times my mind will tend to wander in his direction since I am doing something for him as opposed to doing something which just needs to be done anyway. So, ironing shirts because he told me.. I think about him. Doing laundry just because laundry needs to be done and not because he told me, the field is wide open as to what I may think about.. sometimes I think about starting threads on compliance when I'm in the middle of scrubbing toilets. Carrying out commands when they are things I don't like is generally going to be the hardest. I am a good slave to Himself (would probably be lousy for someone else!) but I am not perfect. My service is not always whistling a happy tune and skippity do dah so when he has me do things for him that I do not like, yes, I do them and no, I wouldn't grumble under my breath or anything like that but I can get physical reactions from the discomfort of the feelings that are evoked by those kinds of commands. I know he doesn't want to hear it.. when it's hard for me because 99 times out of 100 he's having me do something for him which is unhealthy for him so that sucks and I do react and I do remind (once) that X or Y shouldn't be combined with his medications or that we are doing (________ <-- fill in the blank) and his command may effect that activity etc., he may or may not give further thought to the command but in any event, I am allowed to remind (two heads being better than one) and then his final decision is carried out regardless of how it makes me feel. If I need to process at all, it's going to be with the few negatives not the joyful or even the mundane. Most of the time I feel wonderful in service to him.. once in a great while, I feel rotten. How about you all?
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"Oh, so it's just like Rock, paper, scissors." He laughed. "You are the wisest woman I know."
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