Mavis
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i'm getting the "feel" from your right vs wrongness of a topic, sounds like something i deal with a lot.. pride. It's my biggest issue. i can, like you, be proven wrong, no problem. But to let "bad facts" stand uncorrected hits all my hot buttons.. One submissive friend told me her observations of me in a chat room.. really stinging report. "you correct the Dominants, and act superior to a lot of them." my reply was, "well, if they can't get thier facts straight, i AM superior to a lot of them." Honestly, nothing would be changed in the world by leaving their statements uncorrected, but my pride wouldn't let me just let things pass unchallenged. Master took hold of that trait first off, and attacked it with a vengeance. Online, i was made to observe chats without saying more than simple greets, which nearly killed me.. i had to get used to the idea that what i had to add to the conversations wasn't so important after all. (Damn?? really??) When someone would ask if there was a local meet in town this week, and i knew there was, i couldn't jump in with my info.. when i had the facts right here! NOBOdy else offered, why couldn't i tell? Clearly, my input here was valuable, yes? lol. In reality, that person could probably get the info from google, i wasn't going to be the savior that day. THEN He had me typing with camel-type. That He/she Dom/sub T/they, A/all stuff. Which i have spent years decrying as stupid. All my complaints that it would make me look like a trained monkey fell on deaf ears. i even begged to be relieved of it here on CM, with all sorts of logical arguements that it made reading my posts more difficult, and would effectively cut me out of the discussions for many readers. His reply was "And your input is so valuable that if T/they choose to skip it.. ???" i was also directed to have at least one converation a day where i didn't offer any opposing viewpoint at home. That sounded so simple, but when i realised Hubby would say something like "tonight is Survivor", i would have to stifle a reply like "Oh, i thought You'd want to watch the taped Medium tonight and just Tivo Survivor for tomorrow." i started seeing how many times over the years i have interjected my opinions and plans and desires on Hubby; no wonder He didn't feel He could have a single independant thought! my fingerprints were all over every word He uttered. Pride again. Lilsister, letting some of this pride stuff go is kind of like humiliation play. When pride is in play, if you settle with a name He likes, but you don't, you'll feel like you'll want to point out "He chose her name" because your pride won't let you accept responsibility for such a silly name. Whne you've been able to release it, you'll be able to share in His decisions and take them as your own and be content with them. The crux of humiliation play is not "He made me wear this silly outfit" but when you can't TELL anyone you didn't choose this silly outfit! i truly think the payoff in humiliation play is when you feel more at ease doing Masters bidding than looking "right" to the world at large. With pride, the payoff is.. when i feel truly surrendered to His will, rather than wanting to meet some societal standard for right-ness, i am in my cosy place. It's slow going for me, as you can see, my pride pops up and i make excuses for camel-type by making note it's His directive that i type this way! But just being aware that pride is what is at the root of this behavior is helping me to get a grip on some of my more irritating traits. Maybe this will help you too.
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