gungadin09
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ORIGINAL: LadyPact For this OP, yes. I feel for her. I don't think this is being handled well and I would probably handle it differently. Maybe the Master of the household would like to take that into account. Especially when it comes from those who *aren't* challenging his authority. LadyPact- i'm sorry, but i don't see these responses as challenging anyone's authority so much as giving advice when it was explicitly asked for. The girl was sent to ask for our opinions, and our opinions are what she got. It's been said various times on the forums that people have the right to ask a question, but not the right to have people tell them what they want to hear. i have the feeling the Master would not like many of the responses the OP received. Nevertheless, by sending her here to ask the question, by extension, He asked it Himself. How should we have answered? When people are asked their opinion, what they give is... their opinion. It's not our fault if it's not the one the girl's Master wanted. For my part, i didn't mean to imply that He needs my permission or approval to do anything. He certainly does NOT need my approval, or the approval of the other forum members. i suspect He *knows* that He doesn't need it. And He is more than welcome to participate in the discussion Himself, tell His own point of view. However, when someone asks for my opinion, that's what i give. Under normal circumstances, that is. I usually answer this sort of question by saying how i would react if i were in the same situation. But in this case the girl seems to want help and not an argument or debate, so i tried to consider things from her point of view, and her Master's point of view, and give advice that would help *them*. The problem was that that's hard to do in this case, because the one side of the story that was presented is clearly biased and missing crucial facts. And i agree with You. If Her Master told her upfront that she wasn't going to have any say in who His other subs were, or how fast the relationship developed into poly, or whether the other subs were going to top her, or whether she would top them, etc. If that was clear from the start and now that it's happened she doesn't like it and so she's trying to renegotiate, then that seems whiney and unreasonable. On the other hand... was it clear from the start? i can't tell from her account exactly what was agreed to initially, and not all dynamics involve an exchange of power that's as complete as Yours. i realise the girl's calling Him Master, and so that probably means an M/s dynamic. And yet, even *that* means different things to different people. i know an M/s poly couple where the Master has a lot of concern for the primary slave's feelings about His other relationships, and i suspect that that slave would be allowed to veto a relationship is she really objected. i understand that that's not every poly relationship, and arguably it's not even M/s, but it certainly is to *them*. My point is i don't know what relationship exists between the OP and her Master, in terms of how much power there is on either side, or what agreement there was initially about how they were going to "ease their way" into poly. With that in mind, i don't see the girl's OP as a challenge of her Master's authority so much as a request for help, and similarly i see the responses to the OP as offering help when it was asked. pam
< Message edited by gungadin09 -- 5/17/2011 5:33:05 PM >
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