leadership527 -> RE: What mistakes do you make and get punished for? (11/30/2010 9:55:47 AM)
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ORIGINAL: daddysprop247 ...but it does show me that my actions matter and that he actually cares about my progress It would, of course, be a mistake to think that simply because i do not punish Carol that I have no other way to define and enforce boundaries. Carol is typically very clear about it when she's disappointed me. The rule, whatever it was, gets reinforced by jerking on her mental leash. The takeaway in her head is, "Jeff never bluffs and he gets what he wants." With or without any sort of corporal addendum to it, it is plenty for me to work with as a leader. I honestly don't think there is any answer to "why" and "why not". It certainly has nothing to do with strictness. I doubt it has much (or anything) to do with harshness. I think I don't punish because I don't want to and I don't need to. I don't want to because I'm me. I don't have to because we're us. In some other relationship, who knows what I'd find either desirable to me or needful for the relationship? My best guess is that this ties into the thing I'm noodling on nowadays... being more focused on control or obedience. Carol and I are focused on obedience, so we don't end up with disobedience because hits in that area would be crippling to our dynamic. But others are more focused on control. It isn't so much that the slave does what she's told as it is that the master will eventually make her do so.. THAT is what's important. So there, the initial act of disobedience is minor, but what would be crippling to the dynamic is the lack of overt expression of control. That divide is rather amusing to me actually in that you can take two couples, both of whom have real life and fairly "extreme" M/s relationships. But if they're on opposite sides of that divide, then it looks pretty "Fake" from both sides. The control people look at me and say, "Sheez Dude! You call yourself a master and you won't even enforce your control." I [am tempted to] look at the control people look and say, "Sheez, Dude! You call yourself a master and your girl doesn't even obey!" I personally love digging into these little splits... places where things look so similar on the surface and all the same words are being used, yet just one layer into the onion it's an entirely different beast.
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