BotanicalMiss
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I can't say where I'll be or who I'll be with or what the dynamic will be that far down the line. But here's a situation I ran across that I found very interesting..... Several years ago I took care of a 70+ year old alzheimer's patient. She still lived in her own home and had caregivers (myself and another woman from the same agency) who stayed with her 24/7. Her husband had recently died and some of the time she knew that and sometimes she didn't. However, when she knew exactly who and where she was and what was going on, she insisted on sitting on the floor next to her husband's chair. When I once suggested that she actually sit in a chair or on the sofa while we were watching tv, she looked at me with a slightly horrified look, shook her head and said oh no, the furniture is for guests and did I need her to get me anything? Well, this was during the time when I had just found the lifestyle and while I didn't know for sure anything about the relationship she had with her husband and I never asked her about it, many of her behaviors spoke volumes to me. So, does the D/s fall by the wayside? The BDSM play might not be the same, or may not even exist anymore, but the D/s basis doesn't have to go away.
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