Entrancer -> RE: What went wrong? (7/11/2006 7:59:30 PM)
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I guess for me there is a question as to how to define “experience.” I sort of became more and more interested over a period of a couple of years, reading a lot and doing a lot of “chatting”. The first experience “in the flesh” was within a relationship that had started out as vanilla. In general pillow talk, I revealed that aspect of myself, and she professed an interest. I knew enough to know pretty much exactly what I wanted in that aspect of a relationship, and we discussed it at length. She kept saying how she wanted to try it, but something told me she really wasn’t cut out for a submissive role, so for months I kept the activities limited to mild kink…light bondage and blindfolds, primarily. She enjoyed that tremendously, but... Finally, we were going on a one week trip to Hawaii, and decided to “take the plunge” the first night. I wouldn’t say the experience itself was a total disaster, but it did, I think, trigger a lot of her insecurities. So…that week ended up being hell instead of heaven, culminating with her going on an 8 hour, verbally abusive drunken binge the last night. It was the ugliest I had ever seen her. I’m not sure what I really learned from the experience other than to trust my instincts more, and being very leery of trying a D/s relationship with someone who is essentially and pervasively insecure. I do believe that insecurity and true submissiveness are difficult to combine, but that could just be me being a victim of my own experiences. I suppose I might have learned not to try to convert a vanilla relationship into a D/s relationship, but that happened with my next relationship, and even though the relationship as a whole didn’t work out, she did appreciate my introducing her to that side of herself, and told me in our "post mortem" talk that it felt “right” to her when she knelt at my feet. Maybe I’m getting wiser, because the more I learn, the more I realize what I don’t know.
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