Padriag -> RE: how far to push patience (3/4/2007 11:08:03 AM)
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I'm under no obligation to ascede to a submissive's wants. I will care for her needs. That she may be given some of those wants as rewards is something she earns. This has nothing to do with any childish game of button pushing for its own sake or petty forms of control. I see that in some, they push simply to see how far they can... often without considering the cost of doing so. Far wiser the dominant who does as he does for reasoned cause. But then the irony is how many submissives, and people in general, have lost the capacity to differentiate their needs from their wants and treat both equally as though they were rights. A good example of this was something I saw a few moments of on a TV show the other day. I don't know the name of the show but apparently it involve a woman who was $20,000 in debt, sponging off her mother, and still living beyond her means. A financial coach of some sort was involved to help her sort her mess out. Part of this required her to change her lifestyle and learn to live within her means. She seemed unable to do this without constant fits of hysterics. When her credit cards were cut up she wept as though she'd just lost a child. She had a huge collection of DVDs which she was instructed to sell some of to help pay down her debt, she only sold 16. She felt she needed to have the other DVDs, needed to have cable TV, etc. These are not needs, they are wants... and people like that are prone to suffocate under the weight of all those wants. Likewise, a submissive who demands their wants be met is acting similarly. If such a submissive were to pass me by, I think I would count myself fortunate for it. I will, without fail, attend to the needs of any submissive in my care. But her wants are something else, given as rewards or perhaps occasional gifts because it pleases me to do so. They become all the more treasured because of this.
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