agirl -> RE: what r a doms responsabilities to a sub. (4/21/2011 2:44:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Rochsub2009 Responsibility in ANY relationship goes both ways. It doesn't matter if the relationship is D/s, M/s, or vanilla. Really? I don't think I have any responsibility to Carol. I don't think she has any responsibility to me. I think both of us are obligated to ourselves, our own ideals, and the ultimate reality of consequence. I feel about "responsibilities" (at least the way it's being used here) much the same as I feel about "rights". I don't understand where they come from. I don't understand who assigns and/or removes them. I don't understand how performance is graded against them. I just don't see how it applies. I live in the world of consequences and that works for me. I don't think I have any *responsibility* toward M, but if I want an M/s relationship then I am certainly responsible for doing what's required to have one and vice-versa. If we don't do what it takes to have it, then yes, the consequences will be that we end up sans M/s. Exactly! Leadership is quibbling over semantics. Whether you call them responsibilities, rights, consequences, or "fiddle-faddles", each party in a relationship has things that they need to do to keep that relationship intact. If they don't do those things, the relationship will likely crumble. Leadership (Jeff) has a relationship that came long before the D/s in it ........and which will continue even if the D/s wanes, in some way or other. Our relationship wasn't/isn't built on love or marriage.....it was spawned entirely relating as D/s. It's as natural as breathing for us to know who does what, why and when. It's not written anywhere, we just *know* it. When either of us behaves remotely *out* of that, there's an instant uncomfortable distance between us. We're only close in an M/s model, we don't know how to *do* egalitarian between us, but to have M/s, we have to DO it because lip service doesn't. I look at it in this way......... I'm responsible for paying my bills..........there's no-one else out there that's going to do it and if I want my way of living to continue then it falls to me to do so. Ditto my relationship. agirl
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