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Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk and ... - 4/24/2014 1:56:13 AM   
SirEpitome


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I see so many postings from women who swear they are "submissive", that they want someone to take control and to set the rules. Now I understand that looking for a Dominant or submissive online is....well...hard, a joke, and an exercise in frustration and irritation. There are a lot of "players" out there....lets face it and be honest there are a lot of disingenuous people out there. As of late I see so many women expressing their frustration in their posts and journals, and I admire and respect that.

What I am noticing is that these women, the reality that they want is someone first to accept them, their body and their personality, and they want to determine the rules, and any decision that does not agree with what they want is summarily rejected. Any attempt to assert authority, respect, consideration is met with open resistance, surreptitious disobedience, passive-aggressive behavior, interest, commitment, and even attempted recruitment of "allies" from other online friends, from among friends and family (who, sadly enough, do not have the maturity to say "It's between you two.") Any response is generally either ignored, or meant to deride and insult any approach that is not one they have already predetermined as the one true way of doing anything.

On top of this is a general hypocrisy–rules were to be followed by everyone but the self-styled “submissive”, who appeared to count herself quite clever for doing whatever she wanted in the first place. In dealing with others, they likewise impose rules that do not apply to themselves. On those times when attempts to provide guidance and structure, it is demanded that they are provided, a-priori, every single possible contingency and scenario. If there was the slightest gap, structure is deemed unworthy. If some outside event disrupted daily life, not only the disruption but the event, itself, is entirely the Dom/me's fault.

As relationships end, the Dom/me is the one who is at fault, if there was any sharing of responsibility, their portion consisted of them being “too kind” or “too tolerant” of the Dom/me and their innately wrong attitudes and methods.

How does one deal with such “submissives” who really just want a figurehead who manages to somehow always make the decisions that the “submissive” wants? If the only way to deal with them is to avoid them, how does one detect such an “anti-submissive” early in the relationship?”

Therein lies the observation and the question.

The scenario and question sounds positively awful.

In terms of what you can “do” about a submissive like this, if you don’t care for the dynamic, then don’t do anything with them. If you have been open, respectful considerate, been clear in your direction, flexible in trying to meet their needs, and attempted to communicate the problem with them, all you can do is walk away. It also sounds like a lot of work for little reward and if you don’t want a constant fight (that you're likely always losing anyway) then don’t. I would have a serious “come to Jesus” with someone like that and if it didn’t change, I’d have to accept that they just aren’t a good fit for what I’m looking for.

The second question is a really, reeeaally good one, and not so easy to answer these are dynamic relationships. Is there some reason you might have trouble spotting it? Maybe your judgment is clouded by sexual attraction? Or loneliness or something like that? I mean, is there some reason you might actually want to be fooled? I’m not saying that’s so, but it’s worth asking yourself. Sometimes, we want a thing so badly, we actually participate in the charade, essentially lying to ourselves. Which is what makes it possible for others to fool, manipulate or otherwise give us the run around. It’s something to think about.

The other thing you might try is taking a look at what is written above, make a list of the things in your deion that will serve as red flags. When you start seeing someone new, keep your list of red flags handy and refer to it, often. If you see any of the behaviors you’re training yourself to look out for, walk away. You might have a discussion about it with the person you’re seeing, but if that doesn’t get you anywhere and the behavior continues, walk away. You might even have a trusted confident that can be your “relationship spotter”- someone you know very well and who “gets you” in this regard. Consult them AND your list before you make a commitment to someone new.

Essentially, you want to make a contract with yourself. You want to get clear on what your new, more stringent set of hard limits are in relationships, based on these awful experiences you’ve had. You want to spell them out and stick by your commitment to not put up with it anymore. Period. If you can’t do that and this keeps happening, then I’d say you definitely have some sort of internal problem that’s making you step into relationships that essentially aren’t good for you. In that case, some therapy, spiritual work or some kind of healing process might help you figure out what that issue is and how to change it before you try to start a relationship again. It happens- been there, done that. Got better.

“It takes a pretty good relationship to be better than no relationship at all.” The wrong relationship will just wear us down and suck the life right out of us. It’s important to figure out what makes a relationship “right” for us. It’s also important to figure out what it is in us that keeps us engaging in the “wrong” ones. Does that make sense?

On the topic of Profiles, I have seen many people suggest that new people or people who "complain" about liars, players etc. talk about their "vanilla" interests and qualities. People are looking online for a connection, trying to just create a profile that will catch someones eye is difficult. I think there should be a balance, but if we expect to have that balance it has to work both ways, the reader has to balance their expectations to that of what they are reading. Everyone needs to be safe, to be smart, but more than anything considerate and respectful.

I am a sexual, loving dominant, there is more to me than just that, but a small paragraph won't convey that and neither will a long post. It seems that if you make a long post you're as much at risk of getting ignored as those short posts or those posts that have no real personal details or interests.

Be yourself, share you vanilla and your kink be as daring and bold as you are comfortable with.

I am looking, I state what I want, and if you say you want an online relationship, I want that as well. If you want a mentor someone to show you the ropes and help you, I am a loving dominant, a nurturing mentor and a natural teacher.
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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 3:22:18 AM   
SimplyMichael


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Dude, just cause they won't submit to you...doesn't make them not submissive.

Some of us take dominant women and inspire THEIR submission so its probably not them.

I suggest you print out your rant in 2 point font, fold it seven times and then post what is left in the mirror and if you squint real hard, you just might see the problem staring you in the face.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 3:48:27 AM   
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Submission is a privledge, not a right. If a woman, submissive or not, is not interested in you, she is under no obligation to submit or even act as such with you. I personally like to earn a sub's submission. I wouldn't want them to blindly submit to me without knowing me, or I knowing them.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 3:54:10 AM   
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I was talking one day before I was free, to the man who owned me about a friend who couldn't understand why I so readily obeyed. He laughed, and I could hear the smile in his voice when he said, "but you like being told what to do.". I looked up at Him and said "I like it when You tell me what to do. Everyone else can take a flying fuck". He conceded the point. See, if He didn't require that I obey without question or hesitation, I would question and hesitate regularly. Because while it is in my nature to submit, it is also my nature to question and resist. Under His rules, I was usually able to quash those instincts. But with anyone else I am just me. Not submissive, not obedient, absolutely resistant. It doesn't mean I'm not 'real', it only means I have not agreed to submit to you.

It's not clear from your post whether you are talking about women who agree to submit but didn't, or women who you were getting to know with the intention of D/s in the future. If it was the latter, it could be you are expecting something which has not been given.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 3:59:10 AM   
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Everyone is looking for something different. At least they are putting it out there and upfront about what they expect. I don't understand what you wrote about "recruiting online friends" during an argument.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 4:27:53 AM   
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quote:

What I am noticing is that these women, the reality that they want is someone first to accept them, their body and their personality, and they want to determine the rules, and any decision that does not agree with what they want is summarily rejected. Any attempt to assert authority, respect, consideration is met with open resistance, surreptitious disobedience, passive-aggressive behavior, interest, commitment, and even attempted recruitment of "allies" from other online friends, from among friends and family (who, sadly enough, do not have the maturity to say "It's between you two.") Any response is generally either ignored, or meant to deride and insult any approach that is not one they have already predetermined as the one true way of doing anything.


This paragraph is where your going wrong

You shouldn't be attempting to "assert authority" over anyone online. And, this may come as a surprise, but we actually have the right to choose who to like, or god forbid LOVE, based on what you men bring to the table. If you don't have what we need, we have the RIGHT to reject you. Same works in reverse.

It's called dating

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 6:33:08 AM   
JeffBC


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quote:

ORIGINAL: SirEpitome
Any attempt to assert authority, respect, consideration is met with open resistance, surreptitious disobedience, passive-aggressive behavior

In other words, you failed to dominate them.

Have you given any thought to brushing up on your dom skills?

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 7:01:56 AM   
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*sigh* I once knew a woman in the lifestyle. She took to calling every male she met sir. She would in effect, submit to every male she came in contact to. I asked her, why she did that, take an arbitrary blanket submissive position to any and every dominant. She said she thought that was how every submissive was supposed to act, that it was their duty to "submit" to all of us, as a sign of respect. Well, after sitting the poor, overworked girl down, I told her, the only one she actually had to submit to, was the one she chose. The rest of us, she could show respect, sure. Or not, completely up to her. Submissive, dominant, slave, switch, these labels don't inherently earn you rights and privileges, grant you special powers... I can't knock on a red door somewhere in downtown Philly, and begin to order scantily clad women to perform depraved acts of debauchery just because I have my "Dom" card... sorry, my mind wandered. Anyway, my point is respect is earned, submission is as well

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 7:42:22 AM   
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It sounds like you are describing the passive-aggressive submissive.

Have you ever run across someone that insists on doing things for you you didn't need or want?
A person that would get angry and try to lay on guilt trips for not doing what they wanted to do right when they want to do it?

And justify their anger with "Look at all I've sacrificed to do things for YOU!"

I lived with one of those once upon a time. And I see that passive aggressive manipulation tendency in profiles quite frequently.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 7:55:16 AM   
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I suspect they don't respond submissively to you because they don't get the feeling you are dominant. Big difference between labeling yourself dominant and having that intrinsic nature and its capabilities. Perhaps you are a top? Nothing wrong with that.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 8:16:44 AM   
Kaliko


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quote:

ORIGINAL: MercTech

Have you ever run across someone that insists on doing things for you you didn't need or want?
A person that would get angry and try to lay on guilt trips for not doing what they wanted to do right when they want to do it?

And justify their anger with "Look at all I've sacrificed to do things for YOU!"




OhMyGod YES.

Oh...ahem...you weren't talking to me.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 9:01:11 AM   
SeekingTrinity


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~FRing it~

I identify as a switch, but submit to only one man. He has that effect on me because he touches that place in me, encourages it, inspires it, and he has shown himself to be a trustworthy man. From a dominant perspective, I get the results I get from submissives because I choose partners who are compatible with me and I put in the work that I need to put in to inspire those desires to submit to me from those Im with.

OP, you can't honestly expect every self-identified submissive to drop to their knees in deference to you just because you claim a dominant title. It really does start with you. If you see passive aggressive tendencies in profiles (as MerchTech can), avoid those profiles. You can't "fix" them, you can't make them change their ways. Pick partners better suited for you and realize you bear just as much (well, MORE) responsibility to encourage the submission to you by how you act and handle things.

As to why you might not see the troubles with the other person at first, there are many reasons that it COULD be...but only you can determine what it really is. Could be lust, could be a mistaken assumption on your part that thumping your chest and pronouncing "I'm Dominant" means every submissive within the sound of your voice should instantly respect you (general YOU, not you personally), could be partner picking skills aren't very fine tuned, etc. many reasons exist as to why you personally might be experiencing this situation you speak of.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 9:39:20 AM   
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You're kinda preaching to the choir here dude. I mean, all the Dom/mes here have experienced all the online wankers who claim to be the subbiest of them all when in reality they're just kinky and want their kink, their way (male and female). Then again if *every single submissive* you encounter is giving you resistance, then the problem might not lie with them but in how you're going about expressing your dominance. I know in my case, my dominance is not only earned, but I have the right to take it away at any time if I feel like it's not being appreciated. I meet lots of guys who can talk a great game until the point where sex and sexual fantasies are brought up, then they just completely lose their shit and become incapable of acting like the interesting, multidimensional person who caught my attention in the first place. It's why I don't really look for subs on kinky sites anymore, they've already got too many pre-conceived notions on how the relationship is going to go and I get no wiggle room to incorporate my own desires. I do a lot better with men who don't know right off the bat that I'm dominant, but can't help but gravitate towards me because of my personality.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 10:28:10 AM   
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How many women have you actually met from CM? And I am talking about meeting them in real life, not chatting online.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 10:39:00 AM   
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Ok.. I admit it... I stop reading your rant.... About the time you started to share your supposed wisdom on what to do with these so called submissive women.

Your first post and this is how you want to make an entrance? A whine.. A rant!

I have one piece of advise for you... Step away from the computer. Go to the mirror and ask yourself why are you meeting all these kinds of submissive women?

Because your experience has not been my experience.



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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 10:50:04 AM   
SirEpitome


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quote:

ORIGINAL: asanaambitions

You're kinda preaching to the choir here dude. I mean, all the Dom/mes here have experienced all the online wankers who claim to be the subbiest of them all when in reality they're just kinky and want their kink, their way (male and female). Then again if *every single submissive* you encounter is giving you resistance, then the problem might not lie with them but in how you're going about expressing your dominance. I know in my case, my dominance is not only earned, but I have the right to take it away at any time if I feel like it's not being appreciated. I meet lots of guys who can talk a great game until the point where sex and sexual fantasies are brought up, then they just completely lose their shit and become incapable of acting like the interesting, multidimensional person who caught my attention in the first place. It's why I don't really look for subs on kinky sites anymore, they've already got too many pre-conceived notions on how the relationship is going to go and I get no wiggle room to incorporate my own desires. I do a lot better with men who don't know right off the bat that I'm dominant, but can't help but gravitate towards me because of my personality.



You are the only person to hit upon what I am talking about. Everyone thinks I am talking about my own experiences or assumes somehow I have failed. I was talking about observations and not personal experience. I have met two people from CM, both very positive experiences as well as good people.

What cracks me up is I went to length to talk about consideration and respect and half the replies seem to think that I operate as one of those wankers who expects every woman to spread her legs, flash her breasts, and unbidden do as I say. That's not the case in any way. I appreciate all the replies but I think asanaambitions gets what I am saying. MercTech I see that quite a bit as well. Bucephalus you are absolutely correct and I agree with you 100%. The whole point of my "rant" is that there does not seem to be any wiggle room to share the opportunity to get to know one another. Darkfeather I agree it is and should be earned.

IT seems that some people don't read profiles, they also don't read or don't read well.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 11:48:40 AM   
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There is nothing wrong looking for someone that is compatible to you. What seems like disobedience and running the show may in reality be just looking for the right fit.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 1:16:58 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: SirEpitome

IT seems that some people don't read profiles, they also don't read or don't read well.

I don't think anyone here has a problem reading you.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 1:37:49 PM   
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   Me thinks you should be a writer . Between your long post here and even longer profile and massively long journals......I think you are right, people do not read profiles that are that long. Hopefully the site is working for you in some way. Best of  luck in your search.

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RE: Thoughts about submissives who don't walk the walk ... - 4/24/2014 1:54:21 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Rasciallymisty

   Me thinks you should be a writer . Between your long post here and even longer profile and massively long journals......I think you are right, people do not read profiles that are that long. Hopefully the site is working for you in some way. Best of  luck in your search.

Yep. Pretty much sums it up.
One look and.... I really can't be assed to wade through all of that.

Even the opening post.
Starts off well.... then goes of into a lecture how he understands the solutions - as if a one size fits all will work.

Sorry OP, if this is how you start off with any sort of meeting, you'll bore the pants off 'em before they even get to say hello.

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