laurell3
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Yeah Des, I'm going to kinda have to say that doesn't really apply here: 1. Does you partner physically strike at you or your children? 2. Does he/she threaten you or your children? Threatening to bring harm to your animal or personal belongings is a form of abuse as well. 3. Does he/she control who you can talk to, where you can go, or what you can where? 4. Does he/she control all the money? 5. Name calling and cursing are also forms of abuse. 6. Does he/she try to keep you from seeing family and friends? 7. Does he/she force you to be intimate even if you don't want to? Rape is still rape whether you are married, dating or strangers. 8. Does he/she try to control how much you or your children eat? 9. Is he/she overly jealous of everyone and everything? ie. computer, children, friends, family 10. Alcohol and drugs are can be forms of abuse if he/she uses them cronically, and becomes violent or abusive. God I hope my partner physically strikes me, I sure find it hot when he cusses at me, I adore it when he controls me, I love it when he controls what I can wear (sic...the article has a misspelling there), it's definitely his option to be intimate or not...... I can't even think the majority of these apply to many of the relationships on the forum. OP: What is one person's abuse is another's dream. Which is why the word here is sometimes frowned upon. Additionally, calling someone fake, pretender or wannabe, usually equates to they weren't a good fit for me. That doesn't make then unreal, it makes them not a good fit for you. Thus the reactions to using those terms. You will find people on this site ranging from pretty close to vanilla to incredibly hardcore and everywhere in between. It's not our place to decide if they are "fake" or "abusive", it is our place to decide that for US. That having been said, I do think there are many men on the other side that have no interest in a dynamic and just come here thinking subs must be easy. They're generally in for a disappointment (I would hope). I don't know if that makes them fake. I block them and move on.
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