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Here's how it works for me - I aligned myself with a man whose moral code I admire, and who conducts his life in a way that I admire, and who I took the time to know before giving myself to. He has limits. His limits are more narrow/strict than mine would be. I live within his limits. So I really don't think about whether I have or don't have limits. I don't have to. We didn't have to negotiate limits. I didn't provide him a list of all the heinous acts I won't do, like kidnapping babies or sacrificing old ladies. What a waste of energy that would be. The only thing I said to him, limit-wise, was "Love me, love my cat. If you don't want a woman with a cat, move on, because the cat stays with me as long as we both shall live." Otherwise, limits/no limits just doesn't come up. If he wants something, and it scares me or freaks me out, or causes me any other extremely negative emotion, we talk about it, and he decides if we do it anyway or table it or toss it. And guess what - I trust him with those decisions. That's why he's in charge. That's why I gave myself to him. He takes my well being into account and won't cause undue harm or stress on me. If he were the type of man who got off on causing me undue harm or stress, I wouldn't have given myself to him.
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