CaringandReal
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl For the submissive side... is there any part of your life you have absolute control over and will never relinquish regardless of what type of relationship you enter? For myself, i have my son. No, none. Some things, like certain privacies, are very hard for me to relinquish, but of course they aren't off limits. Hmm. I guess I'll go down the usual list. I don't have children but I do have a pet. Nothing unrelinquished there, either. If I'm at a spot where I feel I can give everything I am away to someone, then I believe I can and should trust him or her not to feed the cat to the neighborhood hounds. I realize such a person could make me give up my pet. I would grieve over that. Then I would beg that a good compatible home be found for it (the cat was a rescue and is very shy--many potential owners would respond badly to that). But it would still be begging, not insisting, and with no expectation that my desires in this area should be carried out. Just hope. As for politics, religions, spirtuality or other ideologies, pfft. I could care less what I am made to to believe in. Retaining those things, what little I have of them, is not particularly high on my list of priorities. I think I answered the money question in another thread recently so won't harp on it here. Just no. Wouldn't insist on keeping it--at all. Career? :) NO. As in no resistance. Friends/family. No. Back to children: I don't particularly want any, but if ordered to adopt or raise one or more children, of course I would. I'd view it as just another slave duty to complete and would do it to the best of my ability. I'm affectionate by nature so I would probably become very fond of the children, and it would be hard later if they were taken away by my owner, but again, that is the an owner's perrogative, not mine. Ethics. This one scares me a little, but in the end, this issue, for me, boils down to trust. No. Wouldn't insist. Intelligence - no, could care less. I'm actually a lot happier when I feel dumber. :) But since I make a living with this trait, an owner might find it finanically beneficial to keep it around. Personality traits? Those are very easy to mold. I expect some of mine would be changed. I don't particularly care which ones. So with all that gone, what is left in a slave? Probably lots of things, as personality artifacts, like humor, can often be amusing to a dominant person and something they decide to keep intact. But potentially, all I can fully expect to keep (unless I've made a very bad choice) is my driving need to serve and obey. It would be very hard (not to mention bafflingly contradictory) to be forced to give up these feelings. They are at the center of everything, if they were ripped out, could I still be a slave in my mind or heart? I don't see how, but maybe if someone perverse did this, they'd also see to physical enslavement--which would be the worst of all worlds, obviously. I don't know, this one's so far out of my realm of possibility, that it's hard to imagine how it would play out.
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