LafayetteLady -> RE: "Expecting" a long term D/s relationship? (3/6/2010 7:49:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Smutmonger I'm saying you can hope for it-you can work for it-but it's never an entitlement. I guess it bothers me that some seem to think so. Arrogance? Actually, you didn't start out wondering whether or not it was something that people should feel "entitled" to. You specifically asked about "expecting" a long term relationship. It would seem that the arrogance is really more on your shoulders. Like Icarys said, it seems as though you have recently had an experience that left a sour taste in your mouth. As though you had met and begun "playing" with someone and she mistook it to be leading to something more, and since you didn't, she left and you are pissed. How close might that be? There is nothing wrong with people who are just looking for fun and games, friends with benefits, hook ups or whatever. As long as everyone is clear from the start, it's all good. It's when someone does what pageturner suggested and intentionally misleads someone into thinking that everyone is on the same page, just to get into someone pants that there is a problem. And people aren't "wrong" to think they are "entitled" to something, it just depends what it is they think they are entitled to. I believe I am "entitled" to honesty from my partner. I don't think I am "entitled" to his love, but I am damn happy I have it. People around here like to use cliches around here like "drop the zero, get a hero" and "don't make someone a priority who considers you just an option." So yes, in some respects we are "entitled" to expect certain things from a relationship.
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