good post ravenmuse, reminds me of one of my favorite sayings...
Power whispers, it has no reason to yell
to the Doc: i get the sense from ravenmuse that he has been where you are, we were all new once.
Power is an intoxicating drug like feeling, which is why it is so enticing...but just like a kid at a kegger, it is easy to get way out of control and pass out with vomit on your shoes.
That is all this is, and this too will pass.
In this lifestyle there is a long standing tradition of Mentoring. Same sex Mentoring is such a great idea because it was, and is, a very well known fact that new doms often do exactly as you did, and so it basically it is some one who is more established in the lifestyle, is often there to lend a helping hand to some new just coming in.
Raven would be a very good one to ask to mentor IMHO.
Dominants sometimes get an attitude that no one will tell me what to do, and then never find a mentor, but they miss out on one of the richest and most rewarding part of the leather life, friendship, skill building, support and at times direction.
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ORIGINAL: RavenMuse
You are trying to hard! You delibratly took her comment out of context and over reacted to it to try and 'proove' YOU where the one 'in control'.
You know as well as anyone and from the words of your own missive you clearly understood it was a light hearted comment NOT an attempt to control you. Are you looking for a person? They come with personalitys, sense of humour, insecuritys and if you continued in that vain (And the girl was silly enough to submit to someone who continued to over react in that manner) you would be likely to end up with a doormat, a piece of meat who had lost the confidence to be herself. I don't know about you but I find doormats boring, I want a person in my collar.
If you have control you don't need to proove it.... If you haven't got control, why try and force it, if you are a Master and she is the right girl she will submit willingly. Your reaction does indicate you maybe have some insecuritys, if so you need to address them yourself, Master yourself before they cause you to damage a girl (a girls Self-worth can be a fragile thing) at worst, or at best simply cause girls who would be wonderful to own to walk away and find another to submit to.