peppermint
Posts: 5169
Joined: 10/18/2005 From: Montana Status: offline
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In the past I have met a couple Dominants through this site. They were both participants in their local communities. They opened up the doors to the kink community to me. These men did tell me that they got few responses to the messages they sent out to female submissives online. Getting a 10% rate of replies was considered very good. The notes I got from these men were about something I had written in my profile. With one man we shared a love of gardening. I have never gotten a lot of mail from Dominants. I attribute that to my age. In fact, I don't think there is anyone who participates regularly in the forums who is older than I. Being older in this circumstance means my in box is not full of messages which is a good thing. I don't have to deal with sorting it all out. I have also met a lot, maybe a few dozen Dominants who had profiles here, but I met them at munches and events. I met Gary at an event even though we both had profiles here. Quite frankly, I never considered looking for someone from another state. If Gary had written to me here I would have said "Thanks but no thanks" as he is 10 years older than I and I was not looking for someone who lived so far away. He wowed me with his upbeat personality. We have now been together for 11 years. I quit my job to travel with him in his motor home six months after we met. So while I think you can meet people online, the odds of meeting a special someone at an event or munch are so much greater. Online has major limitations. You really don't know someone by chatting or talking on the phone. You get to know someone by being with that person. You get to know someone by watching how he/she interacts with others, how they treat waitstaff at a restaurant, how impatient they are in a traffic jam.
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We are stardust, we are golden, and we got to get ourselves back to the garden. Yes, I am crazy about feathered creatures. I have a dozen chickens, 3 ducks, 5 geese, and 2 parakeets. Revise that number. Just got 14 new chicks and 5 turkeys.
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