batshalom
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ORIGINAL: MadRabbit Is what you want or need now different then what you wanted or needed when you first came to this "thing"? If so, what brought about the changes that made you realize what you thought you originally wanted or needed wasn't right for you? If not, why did you continue the same direction as in the beginning without going a different path? ~giving MR a solid pat on the shoulder~ Good job. What I want and need now is very different than what I wanted and needed as a young woman. It isn't a change in the desire to submit but rather in the manner I can submit. I don't try to force myself or the other person into a situation that doesn't work, I am highly aware of my worth, and I embrace that I am extremely independent without much preference for being at someone's feet all day every day. I used to think, as many new subs do, that it made me less of a submissive. It was confusing. How could I be such a cunt but need - truly need - to submit to a man who is stronger than I? As a younger woman, I wanted and needed to be adored. I needed reassured much more often than I need it or want it now. That, though, is advanced decripitude creeping in - maturity, the process of aging, growing, and changing. It's much more comfortable (for me). I don't need to be the apple of my Sir's eye, I don't need to speak with him every day (I've got my own life) and I feel comfortable in expressing a desire for solitude if he calls / comes by when I would rather be alone. (Of course, the answer is often "too bad" ... but I am always free to express myself openly if I am polite about it). When the answer is 'too bad" or if I get another similar response to something else I want, I don't waste time huffing about it or worrying any more with it. In my old age I have also learned grace and acceptance - he is the Dominant, I am the sub, so if he wanted me to dye my hair purple or make some sort of spectacle of myself, I would do so without argument. (I haven't always been the easiest of subs, so this is a pretty big change over time, even though the pace has been at a crawl over the course of years.) I have found a relationship that gives me enough freedom and gives me enough structure, and I don't need or want more than that. Sometimes I think it might be nice to have someone to cuddle up against at night, but then I remember I'm a bedhog, and I also remember I like to sleep ON the bed IN the middle, sprawled out, and that I really hate being ordered to the floor with no pillow or covers. Heh. Give and take - no sweat. It's al good. There are more changes on the horizon, I know. Some of those changes will be hard, some easy, bu tall propelling me in some different direction. Who knows - maybe I'll wind up a crazy old cat lady one of these days; but if I do, it will be because it's a natural progression of change.
< Message edited by batshalom -- 9/7/2008 12:59:05 PM >
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