Kana
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What gives anyone the idea that I'm not flexible with my partners? I have some very amorphous ground rules (Serve, please, obey)but outside those I never take different relationships to be the same thing. And i understand that people change over time, so their relationships do too as well. Heck, the lilone and I have dramatically changed our dynamic at least twice in our time together, both times due to internal and/or physical changes she had undergone. Not me. I rolled with the changes, and in some instances predicated them because I saw the energy between us changing, that our tastes and desires had shifted, and were (and are) continuing to alter. A relationship is like a garden, you plant it, water it, tend it, but it still tends to flourish in it's own fashion, according to it's own rules. And, far more importantly is realizing that while I can create the situation where the garden can grow, that I'm not the one who makes it grow. I'm repeatedly on record here as saying that I think each and every relationship has it's own dynamic, based on the partners tastes, likes, values, desires and interactions, as well as the chemistry that emerges and grows between the two. Now, I don't shift roles w/i the relationship(otherwise I'd be a switch)-I like power, I like control, that's just how I'm wired, part of who and what I am. Kind of like I'm white, Irish, have grey eyes-these are immutable things that just are-same with being in control. But w/i those parameters, I have lots and lots of latitude. I've run straight power exchanges with no emotions involved, lovey dovey emotion based things, done straight sado/maso, also been, as I am now, heavily into D/S and even done strictly B&D dynamics as a kid. To piggyback on what Michael said, each relationship has it's own dynamic, it's own energy. Over the years, usually via fucking things up, I've learned not to do strict hard and fast rules that constrain and limit the interaction, prevent it from flowering and growing into all it could be. Instead I let the energy develop organically, holistically, and thus, reach it's greatest potential. Why? Because life humbled me, taught me that I don't know everything, that WE can be far more than what I envision-that when I blindly and callously thrust my ideas into a relationship determined that there is only way to live/rule/go, I will throttle something that could have been magical and destroy it. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool ... The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.- Da Vinci Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.-Aristotle
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"One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. " HST
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