JeffBC
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ORIGINAL: metamorfosis I'm in the process of setting some goals for myself. A lot of them have to do with accentuating the positive and eliminating the negative of who I am. I was wondering... do others have similar goals? I'm especially curious about people with submissive or dominant personalities. Which of your own traits do you like? Which are you trying to change? Do couples learn from one another? Is there a goal "self" that you're striving towards? ETA: How much say do dominants have over submissive's goals? Do submissives have any say over dominant's goals? Man, this question strikes me as weird on so many levels but I'll give it a go. For starters, my general experience tells me that people's greatest strengths are often-times also their greatest liabilities and the difference largely comes down to context. So I am very careful about personality pruning... mine or anyone else's. There are a bunch of things in Carol which are negatives sometimes and other times positives. There are also a few things in Carol that I do dare to mess with. In her case the largest one is "being willing to take up some space in the world". Yes, Carol and I could both be better people. Yes, we both try to help the other with that. Obviously, given my position in the relationship I can "help" more forcefully than her but still, it comes down to the same thing. Both of us are driven to try to be better because we both believe our partner deserves it. Insofar as "goals", both Carol and I have them. But generally, like most things, her goals and my goals get coalesced into "our goals" before being acted upon and it's me who does the sum on that.
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