ThatDamnedPanda
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ORIGINAL: VampiresLair I had, actually. Back when, I had the whole "You dont own me yet" pulled on me when someone was too busy to bother with a simple request I had made. My reply was "With an attitude like that I am glad I dont." Tit for tat. Its frusteration talking, honestly. He is still working on becoming answerable to someone else and when it grates on him he vents that way. Does he know how much it tweaks your nerves when he says it? If he doesnt, you might want to let him know. I mean, after all, if his statements like that mean you are less inclined to want to dominate him I coubt hed be so fast to use them. Like a couple of others, my first reaction, also, was that he could have probably found a more respectful way to articulate that. But Diurnal Vampire makes a very important observation here. Speaking as a submissive man, my second reaction was that I felt i understood exactly where he was coming from - for a lot of men, especially younger men, learning how to submerge into the submissive role in a BDSM relationship triggers a lot of internal conflicts, most of them of a type that they've never had to deal with before in any other facet of their lives. So they often struggle to recognize or understand these conflicts, until they suddenly come bubbling to the surface in the middle of some sort of headbutting situation like you're describing. The result is, they often wind up articulating their internal conflict by just blurting it out at roughly the same instant it becomes clear enough to them that they know what to blurt about. And it often comes out in a pretty non-constructive way, to say the least. It sounds to me like that's what's happening with him. I'm sorry that I can't speak effectively to your issues regarding how it makes you feel and how to deal with those feelings, and thankfully the women in this thread have all stepped up and offered some excellent advice along those lines. I'm just offering this insight from the perspective of a submissive man who used to be a very young submissive man, in the hope that it gives you some background into where he may have been coming from emotionally. Which, if you think it's a valid observation, may hopefully help you in designing the best strategy to deal with the issue. Good luck to both of you. You sound like a very self-aware and insightful woman, and wellsuited to work through this one.
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