LillyBoPeep
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you say you "always do this," with regards to closing off and shutting down -- if you haven't found another coping mechanism, then maybe you really aren't ready for this. by shutting down do you mean you freak out and quit? or do you shut off and sort of phase out? i'm assuming your Dude wants you to be present and enjoy yourself, and if you can't do that, then you really aren't ready. perhaps you should approach this issue with him and see if he can help you deal with it. sometimes you have to walk before you can run -- going to a public event without another huge event piled on top of it might help. sorta chip at the iceberg, instead of trying to bulldoze it down all at once. edit: i have to add an appendix -- sometimes there is merit to just "taking the plunge." there were things that i could've overanalyzed into oblivion and psyched myself out of if left to my own devices. sometimes your M is familiar enough with you to have an outside perspective and know from past behavior that you really will be okay -- and pushing yourself and learning to let go is something you really CAN do. note: Ms aren't psychologists. they aren't mind readers and they aren't super heroes. so just because your M is your M, it doesn't mean that he can't make a bad decision. but sometimes our own internal perspective can hinder us more than help. a public gangbang is a pretty big bit of exhibitionism -- have you done exhibitionistic things before? hopefully your M has taken stock of your past behavior and responses, and hopefully he's prepared to put you back together in case of a meltdown. i still think taking some smaller steps might help you, though. but there's a lot of details of your relationship, your past experiences, your general demeanor, etc, that we don't know. for me, learning to let go was about taking stock of how much i trusted him. really looking back at it and seeing where we'd been, what we'd done, and how he'd responded to issues. a reassurance exercise like that might help you, and it's something you can do in some quiet time on your own. think back to other difficult and challenging things you've dealt with, and see how he responded. for me, it was sometimes my fear of failure, and fear that he wouldn't see me the same way if i failed. but by looking back and re-examining past events, i could remind myself that he never had before, and it took away a lot of the anxiety.
< Message edited by LillyBoPeep -- 11/5/2011 4:05:45 PM >
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