Steelslilbit
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~applauds for CarrieO~ I like that quote a lot. And I might have to swipe it. ^.^ Tigreesta, I know a lot about where you are coming from. I did the same thing in the beginning. I don't know how much I'm still dealing with the after effects, but I do know that for a while I was caged not by my Masters wanting of such, but by the walls I had built around myself because of other people's expectations of me (both in the vanilla world and bdsm). It made it harder to function in the outside world, but in the end I know now that it made it harder to willingly submit to the Masters I've been collared to. Breaking free of those expectations may very well have made me the switch I am today, because in the end I decided it was going to be about what I wanted and needed and felt, not how others thought I should want and need and feel (especially when those "others" were people who weren't very important in my life). Subversed, I have to agree with you on the "daddy" fetish. I'm really happy for the people who are happy in those relationships, but the idea of it makes my skin crawl. I've always made it clear, and even with my vanilla bfs, that they are never to utter the phrase "who's your daddy". That gets you a one way arse whooping and a boot in the arse out of my life. ~shudders~ Allthatjaz, you are most welcome for the compliment. Finding people who are intelligent enough to hold a conversation with is getting harder and harder these days. As for dealing with the Dominants and submissives who have been, sometimes, vulgar about their opinions on switches.....it's not now hard to deal with people I don't know well who think that. "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind". I don't remember who said that, I want to say it's either Dr Suess or Marylin Monroe but ~chuckles~ I honestly don't remember. Either way it's true and I hold this very close to me. The people who care about me want what is going to make me the happiest (so long as it's not self destructive). They don't care that I can be a pain slut, that I like to cane my bf, or that I've got a shoe fetish that would leave me broke always if I had any less self control. These are the people who I have a really hard time dealing with that attitude. A Master I was collared to flat out told me to my face that switches don't exist, so there was no way I was one.... and besides, I was too good a submissive to be able to be a switch. After all HE didn't see it in me. I was absolutely crushed, and what made it worse was that I didn't know how to talk to him about it. His opinion was so strong I knew he figured the discussion was over. Unfortunately what happened was exactly what I knew would. There was a wedge between us that wasn't resolved, and I started hearing the Dominant voice in my head a lot louder. He did eventually come to see that I wasn't joking and that this was something we were going to have to deal with, but by then it was already too late. How I saw him had been irreversibly damaged, and the idea of turning me into a Pro Domme to release the need I had wasn't going to change that either. I watched in horror as the three relationships I had helped build, and the home I had become apart of, destroyed itself before my eyes. This was a poly house and I had the most wonderful slave sister in the entire world. Her and I remain close, thankfully, but he and I pretty much don't talk. And it's better that way I think. He is hurt and upset that I left the household, and I still can't look at him in quite the same way. The trust between us is gone. He said before I left, that there would be a place for me in his house if I ever wanted to return.....and while I thanked him and said I'd never forget it, I know I won't ever go back. I loved what we had while we had it, but there are some things that, like a picture once crumpled, won't ever be perfect again. Sometimes Doms flaunt their "knowledge" of switches" to appear more Dominant, sometimes I think it's an insecurity issue. Sometimes it's because all they have ever seen is a submissive who just likes to push their boundaries, and sometimes it's because they've never seen anything like it in their Dom life. To me, the why of people doing it isn't important. I know first hand the damage having such a ridged mindset can cause. I would never in my life wish upon another what happened to the three of us, not even someone who I despised with my whole heart. It's not the why, it is the THAT they do it that matters to me. Which is why I get sooo upset when I'm reading the boards and people are being completely judgmental about others. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but let he who is without sin cast the first stone (and FYI, I'm not christian either, I'm wiccan but I LOVE that quote so much).
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i'll try anything once, twice if i like it. If you wanna know you better ask, and if i don't want to answer i won't. Offical Language: Caryn-ese (Translator available upon request)
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