RavenMuse
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ORIGINAL: Bearlee Just to be clear…doing things to please the Dom/me does NOT (in my book) mean being a door-mat. It does include being able to hold a feisty conversation on many topics, having an opinion and being to state it." It most certainly doesn't mean doormat and that is something I am very glad of because I find doormats terminaly boring and almost as little interest to me as brats. All you have with a doormat is the physical, a piece of meat to flog, cane, fuck.... where is the person to interact with, to have a relationship with. D/s or M/s it is still supposedly a relationship. helen is a very fiesty girl, friendly, bubbly, loves to please (Especialy loves to please me) and yep a cheeky little minx, cute with it. Since we got together there have been exactly ZERO arguments and at no point has she crossed any boundery I have set. She has approached them once or twice and all it has taken is a word, a reminder of that boundery, a small indication that we where heading toward a situation I was not going to be pleased with. Does that mean there is no fun.... hell no, but it is done appropriatly. she is allowed, even encouraged to disagree with me. She can express her opinion (And does so freely, good girl). That is information *I* need. I know my opinion, my wants, my needs..... I am not a mind reader, I need open and clear communication to be sure I know hers. Also she may have some info that I don't have that would change my decision, something I can't take into account unless I know. What she is NOT allowed to do is argue. Once I make the decision, that is it made unless there is new info or situation change that I need to account for. Even when it is not the decision she hoped for, she accepts it readily, she submits to MY decision. Poking Master in the ribs till he spins her round and plants a stinging slap on her behind is part of our play too, but thats all it is, play, not discipline, not punishment, play. When something serious comes up... we talk, usualy she is asked if she knows what it was that I wasn't happy with and mostly she doesn't have to think too hard about it to give the correct answer. Where she has missed some part of it, it is explained to her, the reasons behind why it annoys/irritates/disapoints me is restated and we look at if there is anything WE can do to ensure that barrier is not crossed in future. IMO that is all that is needed. She wants to please me, things that are doing the opposite are pointed out, they stop. Now with some girls and/or some circumstances a girl will beat herself up too much for having disapointed me.... she punishes herself and can't get closure on the incident. THAT is the only time I will use what most understand as 'punishment'. Because if she can't get closure without something then it needs to be me doing so, it isn't her responcibility, it is MINE and I will be the one deciding what is justified.... but the aim is to close the matter and let her focus possitivly on correcting the behaviour rather than negativly on feeling guilty for the error.
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This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Owner of metalmiss
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