InHisHeart
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ORIGINAL: RockaRolla Honest question: What can a submissive, or anyone really, get out of a relationship that they cannot acquire on their own? There's a lot of talk about not "needing" to be with someone, the merits of being alone and happy over attached and miserable, etc. I'd argue that if the submissive is with someone and gets enjoyment out of making that person happy, being able to do that CAN be a reward. And hell, we were just talking about women who would do anything to please their partners. Speaking only for myself, the love I feel for him and he for me, the companionship, friendship, emotional bond and connection we have with each other which is different than having companionship, friendship, emotional bond I have with family and close friends. Someone I'm in a relationship with, I feel completely comfortable with telling him all my secrets and I trust he won't belittle me, won't look down at me and he'll listen to me with an open mind. If I don't feel I can open up completely to someone then he's not someone I would continue in a relationship with. I love my family, I love my close friends and they love me but they don't know everything there is to know about me, they don't know all my secrets, they don't know everything that's in my past and I'm not comfortable with them knowing everything about me. I pick and choose what I tell family/friends and who I tell what to, with a partner, I'm an open book and there's nothing I'll keep hidden from him. For me, being a submissive, getting enjoyment out of making that person happy is not enough for me to be in a relationship with someone. I want that, I have the desire to please a partner but I also need the love, the trust, the bond with him and him feel the same towards me. In a relationship, I want it all, a whole relationship and anything less is just not a fulfilling relationship for me. I don't want bits and pieces of a relationship, it's the whole thing or it's nothing. If being a submissive was all I needed within a relationship then I could be with any Dom that I got along with but that's not what I want or who I am. Without the emotional connection, without love for each other, without the bond, it would feel empty to me very quickly and I would be miserable. Those are things I get in a relationship, that I don't get on my own and they add to my happiness, my contentment but I don't need those things in order to be happy and content on my own.
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