LadiesBladewing
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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth Beyond having a common definition you also need a common goal. slavejib, obviously you seek more than just the occasional physical aspect. You seek to offer your soul, your heart, and mind. The dishonesty necessary from a married or involved person makes that relationship impossible. The best way to avoid it is to not play, even on-line, with anyone who you do not know well enough to be sure they aren't married or involved. I would have to disagree with several portions of this statement... It -is- in fact, possible to have a situation with a married or involved person in which a servant can offer his or her soul, heart, and mind, and have that offer be respected and cherished. The issue here is not whether one is in another relationship, but whether one is honest with everyone involved about the relationship. I am in a committed relationship, and can still accept the commitment and the responsibility for the lives of the servants who come into service with us, without denying or in any way demeaning my relationship to my mate. She, too, can fully claim our servants, without it being demeaning to me. Neither of us is cuckolding the other (which, in my mind, is a degrading of the committed relationship by flaunting secondary relationships that the first mate is unhappy about in that person's face). We are acknowledged as polyfideletous, and actually cherish having the opportunity to have a large and committed self-created family around us. If an individual claims -monogamy-, I will agree that having a mate and a slave/servant on the side is being deceitful. Monogamy requires that a person commit to ONE relationship. Anything more than that one relationship is outside of the boundaries of monogamy, but for the OP, according to her profile, monogamy is not an issue -- she is already in a committed relationship herself, so the only thing that would be an issue here is whether or not everyone involved is aware of the situation, and it seems to me that the problem she is having is with those individuals who have a mate and refuse to be honest about the desire to have a servant, and expect that to be Ok. In the end, it is all about personal ethics. Each of us must choose what we are willing and able to accept, and must decide for ourselves what is a breach of ethics. I've worked as a pastoral care provider with individuals who have a "don't ask, don't tell" situation set up with their mates. For them, it is a healthy alternative and ethically comfortable. For someone else, it may be ethically reprehensible. The key is to not have the person for whom it is ok and the person for whom it is a hard limit trying to create a relationship with one another, which brings it back to communicating and staying clear with one's own principles. Da'Avatar ZWD www.klashaan.org
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