PsyVamp
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ORIGINAL: MaamJay I take Your point PsyVamp and I am guessing that it is Your desire not to place him in awkward positions often that means You don't take him to such events. I fancy it wouldn't have been a case of him saying "No, i don't think i would like that so i refuse to attend even once"? Everyone has their strengths and their weaknesses and it is up to Dominants to work with those sensitively. That said, I'm the sort who would then go to work to help them develop their own social skills and also to negotiate a system whereby their switchiness would be acknowledged. At some play parties, a coloured ribbon system is used to indicate D/s nature ... I would be allowing a switch sub of Mine some time to exercise his dominant side under My overall supervision. If after a few tries it just wasn't working out, then it might become My discretion to say, ok you stay home (with the rider of "and don't get sulky about Me going without you!"). Maam Jay aka violet[A] Yes, I did take him out a few times, but even in vanilla settings he feels a bit unnoticed because of the social awkwardness. Instead of him continuing to feel awkward, I opted to go to events without him if he declines the invitation. I still invite him each time, in case he has a change of heart... Unfortunately, out here in the sticks there aren't many choices and the only events are larges ones which entail much planning and travel so he doesn't have the chance to desensitize. quote:
For Me the key issue is whether he is ever willing to do something he may not LIKE but which he agrees won't HURT him. For Me, that is the cost of genuine submission and for Me, his willingness to do that without drama is priceless. Up until that point, while he is only doing things he likes or wants to do ... it may be very nice to receive but it is self-satisfaction, not submission. I may not ask it of him often, but it's his answer when I do that makes it for Me. He does, on occasion, escort me to some lesser events and regular social gatherings...and he does serve at these places, in small 'covert' ways like opening doors and fetching me refreshments. I do not refer to him as a slave, ....we agree that he is 'filling in' as a slave while keeping his 'pet' status....even though there are a few Masters who have told him straight out that he's already serving me as a slave *laughs* Although, to the OP, my pet does serve in ways he does not enjoy He does not enjoy housework.... He does not enjoy shuffling my adult son back and forth to work.... He would rather stay home and play on the computer instead of driving me to CT on Tuesday, but you can guess what he will be doing Maybe, truthfulmale, you do serve in some ways that you don't enjoy, but they seem so small that you never noticed.
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Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive. . Could a blue screen of death constitute being defenestrated? ~Owner of wolf~ (one of them, anyway)
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