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THANK YOU ALL! - 12/19/2007 6:19:03 PM

liminalRapture

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While working on my Christmas Cards, I realized I needed one more.

I've lurked on numerous sites, back to before alt.sex.bondage became nothing but spam, like before netscape and the web had pictures. (I've been on here a while longer than under this handle--I've changed handles as I've changed.)

This is the nicest group of people I've seen anywhere. I think part of the reason I lurked for so long, not just on-line but in life, is because I could never ever measure up to some of the standards people there had for 'submissives.'

Here, there is a level of acceptance for submission in a very broad range of behaviors, and I have to say I'm deeply, deeply grateful.

It is such a gift to have an understanding that submission isn't a game of 'gotchya' (where you forget to mention a hard limit and then He cuts off your ear or something), where you can have places where you say 'off limits' (for me, that's work), where you can have a friggin brain.

It has been such a weird process for me. Starting off with a "no--I'm not going to do that," and then a "that is too effed up--I can't go there" and then a "well this is who I am, but it terrifies me, and I won't go there" to an intellectual understanding but a visceral fear, to a confidence and joy. The only man I've ever actually surrendered to (much less lived with) I met here. And I don't think it was just a coincidence.

I really think it is a fine group of people, and I thank you all! Have a joyous holiday of whatever you celebrate!

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RE: THANK YOU ALL! - 12/19/2007 7:31:21 PM

batshalom

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~arched brow~

I'll have a few drinks of what you've been drinking, and then I'll love you too, Man.

(Seriously, nice compliments. Thanks.)

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RE: THANK YOU ALL! - 12/19/2007 7:33:06 PM

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Yes, it is all sweetness and love around the collarme forums...until someone gets hurt! LOL

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RE: THANK YOU ALL! - 12/19/2007 7:39:11 PM

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I don't mean to sound pollyannaish, and there are certainly people that have rubbed me the wrong way or ignored me. THere are times I wished there was a 'block' button for a couple of posters on the boards themselves. But I've been on an awful lot of usenet groups and then web-based discussion boards, and blogs, and this is one of the nicest, most supportive internet discussion boards I've ever seen.

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RE: THANK YOU ALL! - 12/19/2007 9:13:45 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: liminalRapture

I don't mean to sound pollyannaish, and there are certainly people that have rubbed me the wrong way or ignored me. THere are times I wished there was a 'block' button for a couple of posters on the boards themselves. But I've been on an awful lot of usenet groups and then web-based discussion boards, and blogs, and this is one of the nicest, most supportive internet discussion boards I've ever seen.

We all have those people we flat out ignore. Then again we all have those people whose every post they post we read.
I think its about the same anywhere you'd go in life. You haven't been here long enough to see the good stuff. When it happens you'll know it and I recommend staying far from it.

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RE: THANK YOU ALL! - 12/19/2007 10:01:53 PM

liminalRapture

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I've been here, under different iterations, for 2 years next month. I'm not looking for a 1950s girls' bridge club. Of course, I do tend to drop out of threads that turn that way, but it is still a great group of people.

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