julietsierra
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ORIGINAL: bellami I just want to add something about meeting someone.... I've only been back online barely a month and it is truly amazing how fast people expect another to "hook up" in just a few emails or phone calls. To me it's not only stupid, it's dangerous. Anyone can be a "charmer" online, on the phone or in person. Hasn't anyone ever heard of John Wayne Gayce? He was a real charmer. Or was it Ted Bundy... Nothing can compare to meeting face to face, using your instincts and for godsake, your common sense - somewhere Very Public and Take A Friend. Hell, get a backround check if it's someone you're seriously interested in. Any sub who doesn't understand that is beyond foolish and any Dom that objects to it is not only insecure but most likely inexperienced as well. Bella Wow...I did the internet relationship thing for a little while. Thank goodness I learned my lesson regarding THAT. Eventually, I realized that when I was looking I didn't want long, involved internet conversations. In the words of a dominant around these parts, "all that clackity clack doesn't tell you a thing" and in the words of another dominant I highly respect, "you aren't real until we meet" (he says no one's "valid" until he actually sees them face to face.) All of that just made the perfect sense to me, so, when I decided to meet someone, I made sure it was sooner rather than later. To me, talking ad nauseum online is a real good way to get attached to a fantasy, and that only means I'm falling for my imagination, so no thank you on long protracted conversations. Either meet me now or move on. My general rules for meeting people were to: 1) make sure the meets happened in my own "backyard." I did leave my geographic area once. That time, I took a friend. I was glad I did. The meet didn't work out, but we had a great time on the drive there and back. AND we stopped on the way home to visit a mutual friend who'd moved to Ohio that we all missed very much, so the trip was great!! 2) Meet in public places. I generally chose the same place over and over again, because that way, the people there knew me. Sometimes, it was kind of funny when the wait staff would start questioning the person I was meeting, but the overwhelming feeling was that I had all these people watching over me - even if, logically, I didn't. (Coincidentally, when I met my Master, we didn't follow this rule, so even my "rules" end up being more like "guidelines" than "rules.") 3) If someone wanted to come in to town from a different area of the country, they were responsible for their own transportation, lodging, etc. I tried the safe call thing, but soon realized that most of the time, the people I would have called were out on the town themselves and so, not available. I DID call my g/f the day I met my Master, but that's just cause I was so excited about the whole thing. And I called her when I got home, but again, it wasn't to assure her I was safe. It was cause I was loopy and giddy from the whole experience. Don't know if that constitutes a safe call or not. I never met people at a munch. I kind of took the view of the munch as kind of my "family." I wasn't going to introduce someone I didn't know to the people who did know me, because, even if in my own mind, there was this tacit "referencing" going on by doing that, and I didn't want to be the person that referenced someone I didn't know. If that person turned out to be someone I couldn't respect, I didn't want his entry to things public to rest with me. And I have NEVER done a background check on anyone I've ever met. I absolutely do not share information such as where I live or my home phone number with the people I meet. Rarely do they have my first name. Even more rarely do they have my last name. I am known around these parts as juliet and that's how I introduce myself to others. Many of my closest friends don't even call me by my given name, so if someone were to do a background check on me, they wouldn't find a thing. Over the years, some have learned my given name and STILL don't use it. When I was meeting dominants that I thought I might be interested in, I presumed that to be the case with them as well. I simply relied on whether I felt the connection between us was strong enough to warrant getting to know them better, and went from there. It's a strange concept called dating. I know...it's SO old fashioned!! Anyway, call me stupid, call me silly, call me foolish. I like the way I do things. And so far, I've never met a Ted I didn't like (my brother's name is Ted). Connecting bad relationship situations to mass murderers just to make the point that people need to be reasonable in their expectations when meeting others is pretty low in my book juliet
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