littlesarbonn
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Joined: 12/3/2005 From: Stockton, California Status: offline
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Yeah, I know that there are the "usual" responses to this sort of thing, but I thought I'd post it regardless to see what kinds of commentary and discussions this might bring up. Here's the situation. I'm what I often refer to as a service submissive, as I find a great deal of my pleasure from being useful to the woman to whom I end up pledging myself. That presents the basic background of me, but as I've stated in other threads, one of the problems is that because of the baggage that comes with being a "service" submissive, women automatically assume that means that THAT is all that a submissive of my ilk requires in a relationship. It's usually not, and I often find myself in weird situations based on expectations or lack of expectations on another's part, but that's really not what this post is about, so I'm not sure why I'm digressing. What is part of the concern is that like most people who have more than one desire in a relationship, control is usually a strong factor in whether or not a relationship can work for me. That doesn't mean micromanaging, or anything like that, but a definite sense that the woman in my life is the one actually in charge and calling the shots. For some reason I don't seem to attract that. I attract women who claim dominance and a need for someone like me, and then I get treated as a really good, close personal friend who happens to be submissive. Several times in the past, I've negotiated a slave contract with a woman who was going to be setting up control over me, only to then turn around and indicate that she is really only interested in me to be her service slave ("cleaning the house, etc.") because she gets her other "needs" met by other submissives who are more interested in "that" sort of thing. In the past, I thought maybe I was giving off the wrong signals or not being communicative enough. So I turned into someone who is pretty blunt about what floats my boat in this type of relationship, but it's like I'm not really heard, that people tend to hear things with a noise filter on so that the message comes through stating that I must not be looking for control and end up in that sort of situation again. This isn't meant as a gripe, but more of a thought to inquire if there are others who find themselves in this sort of situation. I sometimes wonder if this has more to do with me having very little actual "play" experience in the bdsm community because almost always I've been snatched up as soon as I started looking for a potential owner, so my relationships have been few but long. It's almost as if I feel that I have no experience at all, yet the women I encounter seem to perceive me to have a lot more experience at these relationships (in real life, not online) than I really feel I do. A couple of times I've been matched with someone that others in the community have told me are great trainers of slaves, but I never actually get trained. I'm somewhat expected to already know what I'm doing, and if I don't make the grade, I end up getting tossed out an airlock.
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<---- FYI, this picture looks JUST like me http://www.littlesarbonn.com/Stickman/Stickman.htm The Adventures of Stickman and the Unemployed Lego Spaceman
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