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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/19/2011 10:00:43 PM   
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In ours she is an integral part of the poly unit and her slavery is a secondary concern.


That would so fuck with my head lol...and not in a good way.

I think that would be completely confusing to most who call themselves slaves.



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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/19/2011 10:24:19 PM   
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It's confusing to all 4 of us. But this is the way Hanners wants it.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/19/2011 10:33:23 PM   
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I can only go from what I understand of other people's households from what I read here.

In My eyes, the household that Ishtar refers to is poly.  Yes, it also happened to be a Gorean household, but there were three people where at least two (the females) were both involved with the same man.  Monogamy didn't seem to be present, so what else should it be called?  (My apologies to Ishtar if that isn't quite correct.)

The definition of poly, in My opinion, is not necessarily that romantic love is a requirement.  If it is, you might as well count Me out of this discussion right now.  While I'm deeply fond of clip and have an affection that could easily be called love for our dynamic, that is an entirely different thing than romantic love. 

Mine isn't a household based on equality in the relationships.  There is very specifically a hierarchy that exists.  The marriage is first, the dynamic second, the unit third, and MP and clip's friendship is fourth.  If MP and I would decide that we would go back to monogamy, the dynamic would end.  If it would be in our best interests, we would go to V type poly where I would have two independent relationships, and the unit part would end and no more time would be required with the three of us together.  Even then, it would still be poly because I would still be involved with both of them.  The ownership wouldn't be set aside for the sake of the unit and I probably wouldn't enter into an agreement where it did.  For Me, it would dilute the authority within the dynamic itself because I'm allowing other people to control the how the household *has* to be structured.


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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/19/2011 11:06:05 PM   
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That's a very clear exposition of your priorities. I have a question on these parts.
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If MP and I would decide that we would go back to monogamy, the dynamic would end.

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For Me, it would dilute the authority within the dynamic itself because I'm allowing other people to control the how the household *has* to be structured.
Doesn't the first statement sort of contradict the second? MP already has some control, given that your marriage is your primary focus?

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/19/2011 11:11:08 PM   
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No, because that is a decision that MP and I made together before any other person was involved.  That's not him having control.  That's Me upholding My own integrity in how I said I would conduct Myself when we entered poly.  I gave My word that if he came to Me and said that poly was detrimental to the marriage, I would respect our marriage first and foremost.  Still My decision to follow through.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/19/2011 11:39:54 PM   
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Thank you, I thought I was missing something.

I guess in a way, you could look at it as if we are trying to treat the unit as the marriage in a way.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/19/2011 11:52:59 PM   
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I'm trying to get that.  I'm missing something though.

It's not making sense to Me that the unit applies that way unless what was there prior was circumvented in some way.  I can't compare it to longevity, because yours is reversed.  Correct Me if I'm wrong.

Hannah and Heather were together first.  Their M/s dynamic came once that relationship was established.  You two came along after that, but the unit has priority, even though that is the shortest term relationship.  Yours is actually the newest, where in our case, the relationship that takes priority is the oldest.


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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 12:06:08 AM   
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Because that is the way Hannah Lynn wants things to be. She decided that if we were going to try be a poly household then the unit had to be everybody's first priority.

Neither Suze nor I made any demands regarding their setup other than that we get reasonable time with and access to Heather and be allowed freedom within whatever boundaries she set regarding what Heather could do. That and on a more general level, that each of the other relationships could be configured according to the desires of two people involved.


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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 12:10:50 AM   
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See.  It can all make sense when it gets explained.  Another good example of poly working differently for different households.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 12:15:09 AM   
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So's here's where I'm fuzzy on all this, and if I'm prying feel free to ignore me. Why are there now 4 of you when before there were only the 2 of them? There was never 3, Hannah and Heather and 1 of you, at least not that I noticed. Did she win the two of you in a poker game of some sort?

In other words, what transpired that the two of you came into Heather's life simultaneously rather than going from 2 to 3 to 4?


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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 5:52:27 AM   
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Hi Cheri,

As you posted regarding you situation, i will respond in kind because its easier:

no the you are all not putting the maintaining the quad as a priority and the poly, that is not what i have seen in the posts - it may be what you want or imagine, but not what is happening yet.  I honestly wouldn't expect it to be so soon either as these things take a lot of time and work.   

It seems that the priority and responsibility of maintaining this quad is heathers because she is the one you all want to be with and the rest are secondary.  That's not a quad priority.  That is a heather is your priority individually and you ALL are hers.  As you said, your priority is reasonable time and access to heather.  It will take time for the quad to become a unit.  You are making something -- it may not be demands out and out but something -- because from what it sounds like they are sacrificing the dynamic of their relationship because they aren't seeing how it can exist in the quad. 

I agree with what little wonder said.

Umm no, my model and Ishtar's doesn't place the slave outside the poly relationships, it places her outside the negotiations regarding something that isn't her own anyway -- her time and determinations of her.  Those belong to Hannah anyway.  Whether they are practicing or not, Heather indicated that Hanners still owns her, which means her time and determinations are still not her own.   Our model actually makes her the very center of the whole because we acknowledge she is the common denominator -- i.e  Ha + C+S &  He.  The only thing we leave her out of is the "negotiations" of something that isn't her own to negotiate anyway. Most people don't get is that Gorean M/s isn't as cold and unfeeling as many believe it to be, the slave does talk a lot and she is listened too. 

This is what your quad actually exists from what you all have said based on posts here of the actuality, not what you all are imagining it being:

Ha        C         S     
\        |          /                 
Heather                

That isn't a quad, that's the model Ishtar and myself were speaking about.  With or without M/s involved

To me a quad should look like this          Ha   _   C     But you all don't have 
                                                       |             |    <-- damn thing should be a square
                                                       He  _   S

that yet because you all want Heather and the others of the quad are secondary to each of you BUT Heather.  For Heather, all three of you are demanding priority status.  So no matter your good intentions, even Hannah and Heather sacrificing their dynamic for the sake of the quad, Heather is still in the same position of the "fan" model without the M/s dynamic which in my opinions could only help HER and the pressure you all have i believe indirectly because of your own wants, placed upon her to make sure she is spread around enough for all of you.  Making her M/s dynamic the priority for her by all of you, to me because it doesn't sound like Hannah is being an ass about your relationship with Heather, would take her out of the pressure of figuring out who is her priority. 

In otherwords, you all would need to TRUST hannah to make the best decision for heather.    That is why i posted as i did.  I know it seems this was brought back to the specific relationship -- i tried in my last post to make it generic.

All in all, you all don't have a quad -- yet.  You all would need to stop seeing heather as the common denominator and see each other as the sides of the square and you aren't yet.   You are all in this becasue you want something from Heather.  The others in the quad are secondary to each of you BUT heather who has the pressure of making all of you the priority to her.  What's been done by putting the M/s relationship as a secondary may actually place heather in a more difficult place because based on what i have read of what she seeks, she doesn't WANT the control of these three relationships (she actually said, she wants you all to lead).  But because the M/s is now secondary, she will have to lead because you all are looking to her to "decide" so to speak simply because she is the common denominator. 

I have taken all of what i said here based on posts i have seen from you all.   I think what you all want is great.  I also would recommend to anyone coming into this concept that they really talk to the slave and find out why she is a slave to someone.  While you may never be a mistress concept to her, you may find a lot about her you never realized which will help your quad.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 7:09:09 AM   
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Suze came first, then Cheri. It just wasn't a live in situation until very recently.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 7:21:48 AM   
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I'm going to leave it to Cheri to respond in detail if she thinks your twaddle is worth it. Suffice to say, you are wrong about every single one of your assumptions about us. You do not know, nor, obviously, do you understand <and I seriously doubt you are capable of understanding> what we are and how we are doing things, let alone what our motivations are and where our priorities lie.

Anyway, thanks for your contribution to the thread barely.


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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 8:24:56 AM   
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That's fine heather, I hope for your sake I am wrong.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 8:29:36 AM   
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You are.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 8:44:01 AM   
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Holy crap. How long did it take you to work all that out?

I don't think Heather was looking for a deconstruction of her relationships.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/20/2011 10:27:40 AM   
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that is not what i have seen in the posts
Clearly you haven't been reading them. 

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/21/2011 10:53:23 AM   
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Wow! you really read what you want into things and ignore what you don't want to consider don't you. You've made a lot of mistakes, and while it really doesn't matter to me what you think, I have decided that I don't want anybody to think that your mistaken assumptions about us are valid, so please bear with me while I make the necessary clarifications, in order to correct any mistaken perceptions that may arise as a result of your posts, this may take a while.

First of all, let me say that I went through your post very carefully and thoroughly in order to make absolutely certain that I was not missing or misunderstanding anything. What I discovered is that you made 22 main points (though some of which were effectively just repetitions), and that of those 22 points, I found that you were wrong about all 22 of them.
It would seem that you do not read as well as you think, and you certainly do not have the ability to interpret things that you seem to think you have either. Clearly that is far to many errors to correct one at a time, without boring everybody else to death, so I will just deal with the salient points (there are enough of them) with the following provision: Any point in your post that I do not address directly may be assumed to be in error.

First of all, I never said that reasonable time and access to Heather was my priority, what I said was that that was the only demand Suze and I made on their M/s dynamic. And second of all, you claim that H&H are sacrificing their dynamic for the quad. They aren't. They never did see their M/s the way you seem to think they must, I'm assuming this is the Gorean influence blinding you to this fact, since both the Goreans who have posted have made the same mistake. The truth of the matter is that Hannah Lynn and Heather have sacrificed nothing. As has been explained earlier, Hannah has decided to make it a secondary priority to the survival of the unit, because she values the unit and it's members highly, and until such time as Suze and I determine how or if we fit into this strange world you all inhabit, there is no point in making formal arrangement after formal arrangement and continually renegotiating and rearranging it as we explore and find our way. Hannah Lynn & Heather are most definitely practicing their dynamic, I assume you missed the post where Heather said she refers us to Hannah Lynn when she feels Hannah Lynn needs to be consulted about something.

Furthermore, Heather's time and determinations are her own within whatever boundaries Hannah Lynn puts on them, not the boundaries you put on them. And the negotiations are indeed Heather's to engage in. Hannah Lynn has given her boundaries, but it is up to Heather how close to those boundaries she goes with either of us. She is an equal party in the negotiations with me, and also with Suze in matters regarding our individual interactions, and obviously has to be. As long as she stays within Hannah Lynn's guidelines, it is our business alone how we structure our relationships.


Heather is no more spread around than any of us, we are all having to meet the needs of the other three. Heather is under no pressure to figure out who is her priority, her priority is the same as that of all of us. We are our priority, the four of us are the priority of each of the four of us.
Nobody is secondary to anybody, that is what is meant by making the unit the primary relationship. As well, nobody is looking to Heather to decide anything but what she wants. Again she is not the common denominator, "we" are. Admittedly, Heather was the common denominator in the beginning, but she no longer is. If H&H should break up with us, Suze and I would continue as lovers. If Heather were to leave us, we would continue with Hannah Lynn, and so on. If any of the four of us should leave, the remaining parties will attempt to carry on. I am in love with all three of my partners, and each of the others feels the same way. You're assuming that we all have our strongest emotional attachment to Heather. This simply is not so.

And we do trust Hannah Lynn to make the best decision for Heather, and more than that, we trust her to make the best decisions for all of us, and that is why we are doing things the way we are, because that is the way Hannah Lynn thinks is best for all concerned, including Heather and herself. Heather doesn't have any more control of her relationships with Suze and I than we do. She has only peripheral influence over the relationships between Suze, Hannah Lynn and myself, just as each of us has with regards to the relationships between the other members of the house. If anybody has any such control, ultimately it is Hannah Lynn because we have all agreed to follow her lead for the time being while we figure out exactly how this thing is going to work.

And finally, we have spent hours and hours and hours talking to both Hannah Lynn and Heather about what their motivations for their present and past roles are, why they do it and what they get out of it. It should be obvious that we have done so, we are trying to learn about BDSM and D/s, and we are living with two people who are living that sort of life, one of whom has done so for a number of years in a variety of roles and capacities. Only an idiot would ignore such an obvious resource, or assume that anybody else would. And I am confident that I know more about Heather, and Hannah Lynn, now than you ever will, and that I understand both of them quite well. Perhaps one thing you didn't know, though it has been stated on several occasions, is that while one or more of us may be online here on CM, we are usually all together, discussing the various thread topics amongst ourselves, and that our discussions wander and drift far more than any thread does, because we have no Mods here at Haytch House, we are a completly unfettered free speech zone.

There. Those are the major mistakes you have made in your interpretation of our relationships.
I would like to say that your advice was appreciated, but since absolutely all of it is inapplicable to us and our lives, I would be lying if I did.

Oh, and one last thing; Heather never said she wants us all to lead, she said she hopes we all can and will. There is a big difference between those two things.


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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/21/2011 2:05:05 PM   
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Grins. Good. I could go though posts you all have made and showed you where I got each indication i did but based on this post there is no need. Whether you all get this or not my post was out of not concern because I really don't care but I would maybe use caution for heather, the slave. As for Gorean, I guess you conveniently missed agreements to my posts by people who are not Gorean. But that's okay, a lot of people don't realize that when you try and label the slavery as universally Gorean because the owner may be so and you indicate the slavery in and of itself is Gorean, these people are speaking out of their asses and don't know what being Gorean is. It's easier to speak in ignorance on such a subject. Goreans my do certain things in slavery and have certain mindsets regarding slave but these concepts are all over and not just held by Goreans.

So actually no, Gorean had nothing to do with what I spoke of, which is why I didn't use it to describe it. In fact, I dont recall anyone giving what they spoke about a label. It was only when someone wanted to have the views discounted was the term Gorean used and it was used ignorantly because the person knew the stigma attached to the word.

All in all, I can see why you all felt defensive and I apologize, sometimes my caution warning when it comes to slaves comes out as a lecture. Over the past 16 years I have counseled many women slaves that is in situations where the get crushed in multiple relationships due to others not understanding what many slaves do instinctively and won't speak up. If I am wrong--- great.

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RE: Do as I say, but not always... - 9/21/2011 4:55:35 PM   
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Two questions for you.
1. Have you ever known me to not speak up, even when I really should shut up?
2. Can you really imagine Hanners allowing anybody or anything to harm me and survive intact for long?


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