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~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 1:52:54 PM   
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Selfish~Self-Centered~Selfless

After talking to Rescue Team Alpha, ya know how magnanimous her nature is, she is allowing me to repost this topic so it doesn't get buried in the one liners. Unfortunately, a poll is a poll, so this one will not be.

After seeing so many responses that I found EXCEPTIONALLY valuable to wiitwd, I felt it would best serve the community to bring this topic into General BDSM, cuz we have a lot of lurkers that do not go to polls and I feel this topic is beneficial to the lurkers that come to learn from the general and community threads.

Feel free to C/P your previous answers if you wish, or post a new one if the mood strikes you. I would like to thank all of you from the bottom of my shriveled lil black heart for contributing, and also like to shout out to those members I used as an example and thank them again for graciously participating.

Here is the link to the old post



As many of you are aware I dance to the beat of different drummer… honestly, I am not altogether sure it is even a drummer. So I am gonna say hit it Maestro and just do this thing.  

My personal views and opinions on selfish, self-centered and selfless always seem to be contrary to most and I mostly just kept it to myself because it only matters when it is applied to me. However I have had some good conversations with some other members here and we are clicking on this more and more. So I thought I would toss it out here so the community as a whole could lend their personal perspective to it.  I am going to affix some caveats to it though:  
  • YMMV, a given of course.
  • I am interested in your perception/perspective and do not want it to become a one true way fight, I am simply interested in your way and how it applies to you.
  • I am not interested in a debate of labels, as most of you are well aware how my label system works; gloss over MY labels and insert your own as it applies to you.
  • That said, let’s start fukin this mule.
  Self-Centered D: I would say the bulk of our HNGs and Goblins have been of the self-centered type. Our recent rash of stupidity bespeaks volumes of their self-centeredness; “I cannot get what I want so it is your responsibility to increase the pool of what I want”. I cannot imagine how an /s, boy or girl could allow themselves to fall in with this ilk. For a hard wired /s I know that submission is just as vital to them as air; but really… raise the bar already.   /s: For the longest time I has some cold callous shit on my profile because the amount of SAM, Princess, baby girls and do-me mail I was receiving was overwhelming and damaging my happy. When you tell someone to be into Pony-Play cuz you have a yoke, a plow and acreage they will be pulling said plow over, that cuts that shit way down. Conversely from above, Domination is as vital to us as air and how some of our D’s fall into with the self-centered /s is kinda spooky (again, please raise the bar already).  

Selfless Oh think of the possibilities of the selfless D or /s.

D: A selfless D is a true treasure to the self-centered type, hell I wouldn’t mind buddying up with a selfless D that had more money than they knew what to do with and a mansion full of lil do-me girls for me to come over and do. Show me a selfless D and I will show you someone waiting for a beating. I would like to use a two of our posters here as a point of reference to cull the confusion.

IronBear: I offer no illusions, what goes on at http://www.bruincottage.org looks very selfless (I will clarify and quantify that later). IB and Neets are doing amazing and wonderful things for boys and girls that are lucky enough to don their steel. However, IB and Neets are not Selfless, you earn the right to be there.

/s: The Selfless /s is the wonderful little Stepford slave. I tell people, being the pain in the ass Troll that I am, that the lap dance is always better when the stripper is crying. The same applies for the selfless slave. Show me a selfless slave and I will show you a micromanagement passionless nightmare.  

Selfish This might be a little harder for everyone to wrap their heads around.

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When you have a selfish D (not jealous or necessarily possessive), you have a D that owns your ass and the rest of you to boot. They know who they are, what they want, what they like and know exactly what you are going to be to them and they will groom you in that direction. To know yourself you have to be selfish… self reflecting, self analyzing and self aware. You clearly draw your line of what is and is not in your want/needs list and when you find that /s that fits, you grab on with both hands and fukin keep it. The selfish D is going to make good choices in an /s, because they understand that their need for X is only going to be truly satisfied by your need of giving/receiving/submitting to X, yin/yang. Again I am going to use a few points of reference here:

IronBear and Neets: Selfishly assume the responsibility, grooming and growth of wayward /s types. The better person they help the /s become the more satisfaction they receive (satisfaction is the point of selfishness). What they do, when it is done well, carries on with them till Valhalla calls.

Mnottertail: Go have a look at Ron and what, most, people is going to see is an arrogant control freak. The people on this side, however, see a man that knows himself very well, knows what he wants and selfishly will not settle for less.

LadyPact: It is actually superfluous and pointless to point out her virtues of selfishness, but she deserved mention. You wanna see a fantastic example of how rewarding a selfish D is, go read her posts and profile.   /s: Okay boys an girls, prepare to be mentally damaged, shaking your heads in denial and dismay. The selfish slave is THE FUKIN PRIZE! He/she knows how valuable their submission is to them, know all the little monsters and demons of their submission (probably have cute lil names for each of them) and most importantly they know what their limits and limitations are. They are self-aware and know themselves quite well… they achieved this from a point of selfishness. They will not settle for a bad match or a mismatch, because they are selfish and know what they need and will not settle (nor should they). Again I will use a point of reference:

Wolf2Bear: How can you not love this guy? Once he hit his stride, knew who he was and what he needed, he became a ROCK STAR! For a lot of people, W2B is just beyond approach because the charisma and confidence is just so BIG.   

I am going to share a bit of conversation I had with our Greedy; We were on the phone a few days ago and I mentioned the selfish thing and the conversation just exploded. She and I are so simpatico in our thoughts about selfishness, self-centered and selfless it is just damn spooky. I alluded to the fact that once sex becomes selfish that it becomes divine. She agreed, like a hyper kitty chasing a mouse (chuckles), because she understood exactly where I was coming from. If we are so caught up in pleasing our partner we are not unleashing our primal monster.

I have to tell you, I don’t eat pussy for you… IT IS ALL ABOUT ME BEING SELFISH! Every touch, every bite, every kiss, every tug on your hair, everything everything everything is about ME. I do not do it for you! I want your body to respond to me beyond your control… that gives me control over your body. It is purely selfish for me, I want- you give. The fastest way for me to achieve that is for her to be just as selfish, working from her place that FEELS WAY TOO DAMN GOOD!  

Tear it up ladies and gents!



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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 1:58:34 PM   
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Here's a c/p of my original response:
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Selfish...all the way. Though it may not look like it at first.
I know what I want and I'll be damned if I'll settle for anything less at this point in my life...I'd rather be single than disappointed.

In what I do to get my happy on, to borrow FT,s phrase (I hate that abbreviation, but what else are we to use...Fuk?), I give orgasms...lots of them, not because I particularly want her to have a good time, but because I get my kicks out of seeing her a totally cummed out pile of sub flavoured jello begging me to stop...and meaning it.

In day-to-day vanilla life, I am apparently very selfless. I help just about everybody I can (unless they are a total fuck up). I regularly have people sleeping on my couch, my present roommates were old friends who found themselves homeless. But in all honesty, I don't do it for them..I do it because I like it, I enjoy it...so I do it for me.

And my sub..yeah I want her to be doing it for her as well. If it turns her crank to wait on me hand and foot...cool, fetch my slippers and another beer slut. But I don't want her doing it because it is her duty to do so...I want her to want to do it, to derive pleasure from doing so. Again for selfish reasons...if she does get her rocks off that way, then she'll do a much better and enthusiastic job of it.

So, yeah..selfish all the way...even my selflessness is selfish.


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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 2:10:34 PM   
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Show me a selfless person and I will show you a liar... or someone who is at the very least, delusional.

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 2:16:38 PM   
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D: When you have a selfish D (not jealous or necessarily possessive), you have a D that owns your ass and the rest of you to boot. They know who they are, what they want, what they like and know exactly what you are going to be to them and they will groom you in that direction. To know yourself you have to be selfish… self reflecting, self analyzing and self aware. You clearly draw your line of what is and is not in your want/needs list and when you find that /s that fits, you grab on with both hands and fukin keep it. The selfish D is going to make good choices in an /s, because they understand that their need for X is only going to be truly satisfied by your need of giving/receiving/submitting to X, yin/yang. Again I am going to use a few points of reference here:


This is the type of man I crave.

quote:

/s: Okay boys an girls, prepare to be mentally damaged, shaking your heads in denial and dismay. The selfish slave is THE FUKIN PRIZE! He/she knows how valuable their submission is to them, know all the little monsters and demons of their submission (probably have cute lil names for each of them) and most importantly they know what their limits and limitations are. They are self-aware and know themselves quite well… they achieved this from a point of selfishness. They will not settle for a bad match or a mismatch, because they are selfish and know what they need and will not settle (nor should they). Again I will use a point of reference:


This took me a long time to become. At times, I still struggle with this. But growth is often painful.

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 2:24:38 PM   
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Copied from the other thread:

I never vote in these polls, but since it is the deliciously divine FT, I will.

Love the definitions.

To that end, I am selfish. I always thought I was selfish, but giving, until my last dance.

My partner was self centered and took and took and did what he wanted. At first, it was what I wanted because I introduced him to this world, so at the beginning, he was Dom of my Dreams.

Slowly, but surely he changed because he started ignoring my needs altogether.

If you ask me why I stayed, I can honestly say I stayed because he had made me feel so incredible for a very long time, that those feelings remained even when he was no longer doing so. A little bit like obsessing over a lost limb.

I thought if I was less selfish, it would help, but instead, it made it worse.

He was not the man for me and because of what went down, I will never again abandon my selfishness about my own needs and my need to be with a worthy partner and I still maintain that I will be as equally giving in my seflishness but only with someone equally as selfish in their giving back to me.

Make sense?

Added: I think anyone who claims selflessness is lying. No one is totally selfless. If you are a healthy person, you do things to satisfy your needs; not the expense of others necessarily, but most definitely to get them met.

I cannot stress enough the difference between self-centered, which to me is narcisstic, and selfish. Selfish gets a bad rap most of the time because peopel cannot distinguish that difference.


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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 2:34:30 PM   
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Selfishness within bounds is healthy. Obviously it's the best possible world if both of you are fulfilled by what you do.

However, us submissive types are weird which you dominant types may not realize. We can have a second hand selfishness, if you will. Where we get off on you getting off as opposed to getting off on the activity for its own sake. And this is different then just doing what we think is our duty.


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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:01:37 PM   
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It's "self-less" for me. Probably the single largest purpose I put my authority over Carol to is to winding us ever closer together as a couple... ever more intimate. The problem with that (if you think of this as a problem -- I don't) is that the more you focus on "us", the less room there is for "me". I'm perfectly fine with that. I am the dictionary definition of a "service master". I serve "us".

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:16:35 PM   
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I am a terrible person to be in love with.  Partly because I put myself first.

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:17:29 PM   
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I am allergic to shelfish...but I wanted to say that you sir are a master of the art of bold names I love reading your submissions to the bulliten board. you are clearly unselfish in sharing you trolldom If I ever happen to cross the bridge that you dwell under I will make sure to give you a sizeable pertuity

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:20:38 PM   
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i'm glad to see this topic moved over here. ^_^ i'm going to copy what i said in the other thread and add some junk i thought about while at work.
first the copy --
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this is a ridiculously interesting topic.
i've had this conversation on FL and other places and sometimes it's hard for people to get.
this is something you run into as a service-oriented person a lot. service-oriented people serve because making someone happy does something good TO THEM, too. if scrubbing a toilet makes M happy, and the service oriented person is so interested in making M happy, then she's doing it for M, sure, but also for herself. and why is that bad?
sometimes when you're service-oriented you get the whole "but service is its own reward" thing back; usually from people who are self-centered. but very few people do something that they get nothing out of; there's always something, even if that something is simply "it makes me happy to make him happy."
service oriented people and slaves have needs, too. they seek out partners who reflect those needs and who they feel can fulfill those needs because fulfillment of those needs is important. some people call it selfish, but it's just basic human. ultimately each person is after the fulfillment of his/her own desires, whatever those desires happen to be. that's just the nature of it.


now the junk --

many people have this really negative perception of what it means to be aware of your "self." to be aware of your needs, wants, motivations, your feelings, your thoughts, etc etc. a selfless person is often thought of just as someone who is constantly out for the good of others, but most of these people do things because it makes them FEEL GOOD to do them. a selfless person can also be thought of as someone who HAS no sense of self, no sense of his/her own motivation. a perpetual follower, or as FT put it, " a micromanagement nightmare." THAT kind of selflessness really isn't healthy or positive at all. a self-centered person, is so overly aware of "self" that it's all that matters. the self is at the center of the universe and anyone else can be sacrificed to feed the self.
i remember a chat conversation once that sorta revolved around this topic, and someone said that it was "sad" that people thought no one was really selfless, but that people were mostly selfish. selfishness isn't ALWAYS a bad thing. like i said earlier, people who do good things often do them because they get something from it -- an alleviation of some negative emotion due to a situation they want to fix, or just the feeling of "having done a good thing." i think that's often the case for subs, particularly the "service oriented" ones, who, like DesFIP said, get off on something because the partner is getting off on it.

and where i was going with my original ramble was that often you find people who want to take advantage of you for their own ends because you're service oriented and you DO have that response to things. but i think service oriented people really need to look out for "self" BECAUSE of that fact. there are more self-centered people than any other group, i'm positive. more, certainly, than people who are healthy and self-aware. so when they tell you you're a bad person because they are taking advantage of you and you have the audacity to call them out -- no; you're simply being self-aware, recognizing your needs and sticking up for them. slaves are humans, and no human gets into anything unless s/he's getting something out of it -- BDSM/kink/power-exchange included. Sometimes that something is just "it makes me happy to make him happy," but that's still something that, in the end, comes back to "me." i don't believe there's anything wrong with that.
if what you want is a healthy synergistic cohesion of your desires with your partners, that's still YOUR own "want," and whatever you do towards that end is hopefully based in healthy self-awareness of the importance of the goal TO YOU. even if your want is "us," that want still originates with "you."

ramble ramble ramble

i'm losing track, but i'll probably be back. =p haha




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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:24:47 PM   
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ORIGINAL: salemartist

I am allergic to shelfish...but I wanted to say that you sir are a master of the art of bold names I love reading your submissions to the bulliten board. you are clearly unselfish in sharing you trolldom If I ever happen to cross the bridge that you dwell under I will make sure to give you a sizeable pertuity


Be careful there bub, Irish diplomacy is great. Often works really well on St. Patties day, however it is very hard to pull it over on the folks here.


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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:28:43 PM   
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i am completely and utterly selfish. i want what i want and that is everything. i want to take everything he has to give me and i want him to take everything from me in return, whatever senario/role we are in at the time.

FT i have read parts of two posts from you tonight that i have thought 'i like that alot' about. the first being your give on making love in another section of the site. and then....

quote:

I have to tell you, I don’t eat pussy for you… IT IS ALL ABOUT ME BEING SELFISH! Every touch, every bite, every kiss, every tug on your hair, everything everything everything is about ME. I do not do it for you! I want your body to respond to me beyond your control… that gives me control over your body. It is purely selfish for me, I want- you give. The fastest way for me to achieve that is for her to be just as selfish, working from her place that FEELS WAY TOO DAMN GOOD!

needles


that is my original responce.

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:29:20 PM   
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I gotta admit salemartist... I'm a bit baffled by your point. Could you restate that?

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:33:36 PM   
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I am very happy you have been chewing on this one Lilly, and uber happy you made the additions you have. I look foreword to more from you if/when your reach it.

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:48:24 PM   
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ORIGINAL: leadership527

I gotta admit salemartist... I'm a bit baffled by your point. Could you restate that?


Either he's saying FT is dropping names or:

I guess he is getting all competitive over FT's ability to use the bold code correctly, and wanting everyone to know he's just as code savvy. Personally, I miss the days when pissing contests were umm...wetter and less dry. Not that I'm into that or anything.

I'm not. No, seriously. I'm really not!


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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 3:52:28 PM   
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Ahhhh... a fast reply.

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 7:23:31 PM   
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In the spirit of continuity, reposted.

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This literally just got moved as I had started typing.  I'm glad I spotted it in time.

You did a great job with these definitions.  (I do appreciate the mention, btw, thank you.)  The irony is that most folks do tend to see the terms in a different light than what you are explaining here.  We usually look at a term such as selfish as being a negative and selfless being a positive.  Without the given explanations, the discussion would have sunken quickly.

For the dynamic part, I think you pretty much hit the nail right on the head.  This may be very much why I'm so strong on the compatibility issue.  I always tell people that, if they are looking at potential Owners, if they are looking at Me, they had better be sure that it is what they want.  Once they've signed up for it, what they have seen is exactly how it plays out.  This is why I still prefer using periods of consideration because I want someone to know precisely what this is and how we are going to obtain it.

Almost sounds like it's crossing into self-centered, but it's really not.  Two reasons for this.  The first is that if it's really what the s-type wants and craves, it can be pretty damn awesome.  This isn't to say that I believe submission is always going to center around what the submissive wants and everything is going to be done their way.  It's not, but the right compatibility match is going to make the times they actually submit very rewarding.

The other is that I don't view the dynamic as an island.  The selfless part; the part that prevents Me from becoming the self-centered has everything to do with the community.  There has to be just that little dash of selflessness added to the selfish soup so it doesn't become too bitter and be a pot of self-centered.  That's part of why the leather culture is a good fit for Me.  It keeps Me in balance, in a sense.  Stops Me from going too far in the other direction. 




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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 7:29:20 PM   
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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance


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ORIGINAL: leadership527

I gotta admit salemartist... I'm a bit baffled by your point. Could you restate that?


Either he's saying FT is dropping names or:

I guess he is getting all competitive over FT's ability to use the bold code correctly, and wanting everyone to know he's just as code savvy. Personally, I miss the days when pissing contests were umm...wetter and less dry. Not that I'm into that or anything.

I'm not. No, seriously. I'm really not!


LMAO.....personally I prefer the dick measuring contests myself!

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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 7:33:13 PM   
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: ORIGINAL: Arpig

I give orgasms...lots of them, not because I particularly want her to have a good time, but because I get my kicks out of seeing her a totally cummed out pile of sub flavoured jello begging me to stop...and meaning it.In day-to-day vanilla life, I am apparently very selfless.

I help just about everybody I can (unless they are a total fuck up). But in all honesty, I don't do it for them..I do it because I like it, I enjoy it...so I do it for me.

And my sub..yeah I want her to be doing it for her as well. If it turns her crank to wait on me hand and foot...cool, fetch my slippers and another beer slut. But I don't want her doing it because it is her duty to do so...I want her to want to do it, to derive pleasure from doing .





Unlimited Orgasms...what province was that?

Spot On! I have folks who stop by, crash the night, wander off, show up for Sunday dinner. In my house there is always a spare bed, a plate of cookies, a pot of soup. And I do it because it makes ME happy.

I have an old friend visiting me, been here a few weeks, probably be here a few more (if I am LUCKY). I am so loving being able to do the little things, put a rose next to the bed, keep the tea that is best liked made, rub an achy back, I am doing it because it gets ME off. My friend is just along for the ride, knowing or not, lol.

Soooo...yes...FT......SELFISH, that's me!


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[color="# The first is that if it's really what the s-type wants and craves, it can be pretty damn awesome. This isn't to say that I believe submission is always going to center around what the submissive wants and everything is going to be done their way. It's not, but the right compatibility match is going to make the times they actually submit very rewarding.



Amen!

I absolutely agree here. I've had this discusion a few times, if the match is good you are BOTH going to enjoy what you are doing. Submission should come from a happy place, not a "grumble grumble, yeah yeah, " attitude.



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RE: ~Self~ Re-post - 3/17/2011 8:48:11 PM   
MaxsBoy


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From the other thread:

I agree with FT, but also with Leadership.  I am extremely selfish, but in my relationship my selfishness extends to Alpha.  What we want (and, more importantly, what we need) is the same.  Being selfish benefits both of us.  We fulfill our mutual goals both in and out of the bedroom by acting in our own self interest.

I have been in relationships where my needs were not being met, but I continued on longer than I should out of a need to serve.  Before I met Alpha, I promised that I would never again stay with someone who wasn't exactly what I want and need in the long term.  I have spoken at length about the permanent nature of our relationship, and I'm sure some people here think that we're a bit nuts for making the choices we have (or that we'll come to our senses eventually, or something) but what they fail to see if how selfish Alpha and I both were in the forming of this pack.  There was no compromise, no negotiation, no glossing over the effects in the name of love.  Yes, we love each other deeply, but that love comes from a level of compatibility that is almost impossible to find.  We have both been there, done that with unfulfilling relationships, and were not about to do it again.  If we hadn't each made the decision to accept 100% compatibility or nothing, we wouldn't be here, together, right now.  And the payout for that unbending approach has been amazing.  Love, passion, happiness, absolute bliss.  We have our bad moments like any couple does, but those generally happen when one of us (usually me) starts acting selfless in a moment of weakness.  Thankfully it doesn't take long to get past that.

I think a lot of new players learn this the hard way, if they learn it at all - if you're not getting your needs met, everyone in the relationship is going to be miserable.  This is as true for BDSM couples as it is for vanillas.  Anyone claiming to be willing to do anything at all for their hapless future D/ or their /s raises a huge red flag for me.  Either they're a) too new to know what they want, which is fine, but they should say so or b) full of shit, and the do-me attitude will come out sooner or later or c) a complete energy drain who will sap the passion right out of whoever is unlucky enough to stumble into a relationship with them.

Know what you want, and get it.  Likewise, choose a partner who knows what s/he wants, and will make sure you know too.  That's the basis for any healthy relationship.

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