LadyPact
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Along with all of the regular areas of compatibility that people would look for in each other in a vanilla relationship, I think people who want to include BDSM as a part of their relationship also have to look at kink compatibility and authority transfer compatibility. The kink compatibility is pretty easy to figure out. It's easy enough for two people to print up one of the many checklists that are on line so they can compare notes and find that they are both interested in activity X, but don't like activity Y, and might want to try activity Z. Authority transfer compatibility is more to do with the D/s part. While I'm not suggesting that anybody should jump straight in to handing over as much power to another person as they would hope to reach in a long term relationship, a person should know how much power one person has over another that they would like to have in their life. For example, if a person only wants to submit in the bedroom once in a while, but have a vanilla relationship the rest of the time, they aren't going to be very compatible with someone who wants the power dynamic to be the constant undercurrent of the relationship. The same goes for how much control one person wants over another. If you have a submissive who wants a Dominant to take a lot of control, but the Dominant is only interested in having a little, they may not be particularly compatible.
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