NuevaVida -> RE: What does safewording mean to you? (5/31/2012 3:32:04 PM)
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I have a safe word for one purpose only, and it's not S&M related. I still have some emotional land mines from past experiences. They are rare, but they do happen from time to time. And when they do, I'm simply at a loss for words as the anxiety starts to take over. Since I'm not crying or in visible pain, he has no idea when he's digging a land mine up, and the last time this happened, the reaction was so ugly it almost killed us. My response elicited a response in him that pretty much ended us (temporarily anyway, until we figured out what had happened). So I do have a safe word for those rare instances - when I feel that adrenaline taking over and can't voice my anxiety, I can say "Red" to alert him of what's going on, internally, so we can bring me back to a calm place and work through it. I haven't felt the need to use it since we put it in place. I honestly hope I remember it when the adrenaline/anxiety kicks in. We don't have a safe word for S&M play. We don't play severely enough to the point I can't find words to communicate if something is going wrong. I'd imagine if I screamed out RED though, he'd stop to see what the heck was going on.
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