RedMagic1 -> RE: I dont think you are what you say you are... (9/25/2014 8:04:02 AM)
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ORIGINAL: InHisHeart You'll find this on all message boards and you'll find it with some people in real life. I got into a "discussion" with a Dom friend in RL the other day about this exact thing with him telling me Master isn't Dom enough because I've been out of town for the past 3 months taking care of my ill mother and no "real" Dom would put up with his sub being away that long, he would insist I come home. This board has temporarily collapsed, given the low-quality responses you received about this. There was a time when people who were in successful relationships, and had been through illness and death, could tell you things they had learned from their own lives. So, frankly, your obnoxious friend had a point. Months apart, especially if you're in months of isolation caring for your mother, is terrible for your relationship. That doesn't mean "abandon your mom," but it does mean that you and your dom need to work together as a team to figure out ways you can get support as a caregiver, and ways you can get enough airspace that you are able to feel romantic and sexual, despite the circumstances. When my brother was in hospice, his wife had been at his side for weeks. I told her I would take care of him for a day, and she trusted my ability to do that, but even so, she didn't want to take a day off. We tried a lot of things, and I finally told her, "Look, my clothes are dirty, could you wash them?" She smiled for the first time in days and almost shouted "Yes!" She had found a way she could still be helpful, but be outside the hospice for a day. So maybe an outsider would have thought I was abusing her by making her my servant, but really it was something that surprised both of us, that we arrived at through a process of elimination, trying to figure out what she was psychologically able to do, while getting some important time away from death. Maybe you and your dom could figure out something similar -- a way your mother's needs could be met, while at the same time you get some time off, and can build/rebuild relations with the living world, not just with illness.
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