BurlyBill
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ORIGINAL: heartfeltsub Thank you for your reply lovingpet. Knowing them both, having spent a great deal of time with both of them (moreso with him as i have known him longer and was at one time his submissive, now just his best friend), i know that they talked a great deal about his expectations and needs, her expectations and needs. And i know that he adjusted his style of dominance to try to meet more of her needs (which seemed to be for stricter control) and she thanked him for doing so, but i don't know if she ever answered for herself the question that i put to her once which was what do you want a Dominant or a kinky boyfriend. i know that she struggled, mostly because of her past relationship with thinking that as a submissive it was her place to shut up and obey, that her thoughts were not important. That is NOT how my friend dealt with her, but rather the relationship that she was in before him. He tried to get her to talk to him, thought she was being honest with him, but as i said, in this particular instance, i am not sure if she just wasn't being honest with herself. quote:
i guess part of my question remains, how does one teach that while yes, i want you to obey and not argue with me, i also want to know when something that i am asking of you is really hard for you. How does one teach that balance, especially to someone who has been wounded by life? Thank you again for your reply, heartfelt quote:
i guess part of my question remains, how does one teach that while yes, i want you to obey and not argue with me, i also want to know when something that i am asking of you is really hard for you. How does one teach that balance, especially to someone who has been wounded by life? I'm trying to quote from one of your posts and because I'm new here don't know if it worked. It refers to how one teaches one to be open and honest in a D/s relationship. And the answer does not come from a lecture, or a class-room setting, or a text book, does it? It must start right from the beginning. When I meet a sub for the first time, I am where I say I will be, wearing what I say I will be wearing, and we do what I say we will do (begin to get to know each other). I may or may not have asked her if she has a preference about where we meet, I may have told her to dress in a certain way, I may have made other requests prior to the meeting. And my first question is invariably, "how are you?" I want to know that she's comfortable and, if not, I want her to tell me. I also, if not at this first meeting then very early on, let the sub know that she is perfectly free to ask for anything she wants. I also tell her I will then decide whether or not she gets it. In other words, I guess what I'm doing is telling her I always want to know what she's thinking but that she's not always going to get what she wants. With all that said, I have had experiences where this desire for open communication did not work. Why? The only answer that I've come up with is that the sub was afraid that if I knew her true feelings about whatever it was that upset her I would consider that a deal-breaker. In other words, she would lose a great deal of what she wanted to hang on to. I don't think that's true on my part, but I think that was the fear on her part. And I guess the only way to overcome that is time. Good question and some wonderfully thoughtful answers here. Thanks to you and all. Bill
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