LaTigresse
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Hmmmmm, well being the late bloomer that I am I should be able to answer this easily but I find that is not the case. Please forgive me for being long winded, in advance. Growing up in podunk Iowa my exposure to anything out of the VERY vanilla realm was non-existant. In addition to a pregnancy and shotgun marriage at age 16 that I managed to hang onto for 8sih years (odd I cannot exactly remember when that mess ended any more) Then after a couple of years flying solo and working 18-20 hour days being a mom I got married again to a VERY vanilla guy. Just a super nice decent kinda guy that any woman would love to have as a life partner and coparenting with. After I finally had everything the way it "should" be and could stop whirling around enough to take a deep breath and think about myself I realized I was not the happy camper I should be. I had spent so much time and energy being everything to everybody I totally ignored my own happiness. After hopping into the whole lesbian thing and getting some light play introduced by my first girlfriend, then a good friend, a domina from California kept pushing me, telling me I was. At first I had some really warped preconcieved ideas of what BDSM was, trust me, I thought anyone into that shit was some sick motherfuckers!! But, you know, I just kept getting drawn back to it, like a magnet. I was pretty freaked out at first. Total self denial. Then thru more experimenting and actually getting to know some real live people as human beings it began to be alot less scary and alot more..WOW. My next girl would be the one that really popped the top off the can of worms. I had known her as a good friend prior to any sort of relationship or mention of BDSM so it just flowed naturally. Yes there have been some minor freak outs, fortunately she has always been too intimidated to bring them up face to face so my reaction was tempered by having to answer her email rather than have her see my face. She had some serious family stuff come up last year that drew us apart for several months and we have just begun to reconnect recently. In that few months I think I have had more AH HA moments and learned more than any of the 43+ years prior. Granted I am still as green as spring grass when it comes to putting stuff to practice. But now I feel alot more confident I can keep my head and not cause any irrepreble damage. Last year, I was not so sure. You should have seen my face when my ex "suprised" me with my first trip to a play party!!
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My twisted, self deprecating, sense of humour, finds alot to laugh about, in your lack of one! Just because you are well educated, articulate, and can use big, fancy words, properly........does not mean you are right!
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