hisannabelle
Posts: 1992
Joined: 12/3/2006 From: Tallahassee, FL, USA Status: offline
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fast reply (as always) what bossy said makes so much sense to me. i'm all submissive, and i'm in a 24/7 tpe (although not live-in), but for the most part it's just like any vanilla relationship. we both have jobs, i have school, he has kids, we have lives. i do my best to think of what he wants before anything else, including things like remembering to email him, call, bring over everything i'm supposed to when i stay over (a few times a week). neither of us would be happy, i think, with the fantasy of having a sexual/house slave at constant beck and call...i think that he would get irritated with that pretty quickly! the psychological constance of ownership and of his desires coming before anything else (in my mind) is what makes it a 24/7 relationship - not any circumstance of constantly being naked, aroused, and in the kitchen cleaning/cooking ;) when we first acknowledged the D/s aspect in our relationship, we did draw up something of a "contract," but what we have now has changed and evolved from that, and we really don't need a contract. we're not married, although we plan to get married eventually. because our relationship is based on D/s, to me the two are inseparable...he's naturally dominant, i'm naturally submissive, i don't think our relationship would work as a purely vanilla one. of course, having the D/s element constantly present means that we don't have the chance to ignore many of the emotional issues that people in vanilla relationships often get, because i think D/s and particularly s&m play, at least for us, pushes boundaries as far as trust and communication and all of that goes. i think it provides ample opportunity for self-exploration that might otherwise be ignored in a vanilla relationship, or at least not covered so quickly. i've always had a fantasy of being the good little housewife :P but i don't think that would ever work for us. for one, my plans as far as eventually going to graduate school and hopefully teaching mean too much to me, and his desire for me to have my own life means too much to him. for another, as much as i love to cook and i'm pretty damn good at it, he's got very plain, simple taste in food (often eats the same dishes for ages on end), and he's the one who likes to clean. so the traditional roles are often reversed ;) i love this. i would never want to have any other kind of relationship, honestly, at least as my primary relationship. it's challenging and sometimes difficult, particularly because i have a terrible time communicating and we both had some trust/intimacy issues, but we're alike enough to make it work and different enough to learn from each other. to me it's rewarding to be able to grow and learn within a relationship like this - to learn what pleases him (and other men), and to learn more about myself and what i want sexually and otherwise - and it's also rewarding to, well, have an outlet for my desire to please and the joy i get from service that is constructive and not destructive to my emotional health (as my submissive personality has been in platonic relationships in the past).
< Message edited by hisannabelle -- 12/25/2006 9:33:01 PM >
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