Hello Friends,
A king may abdicate, and a boss may resign or retire. How does a domant end his or her dominance?
A dominant must be in charge at all times (unless he or she is a switch) of submissives. Letting a submissive get away without consequences when not acting as a submissive, allowing the submissive to become in charge of a situation, and when a submissive punishes the dom for something the sub dislikes, this is the beginning of the end.
Sure, the dominant may drop the guise and become nothing or even submissive themself. This is a world of many possibilities.
When a dominant feels like they are falling short and abandoning the drive to act as a dominant, this can lead to being neither and then depressed and frustrated. There is no future to look forward to, and losing trust and hope is all part of this shift into nothingness.
The whirlpool of negativity swallows some people up. One negative experience or thought leads to another, and then, like falling into a black hole, there is darkness and nothingness. It can swallow you whole, and as the cosmological theory of black holes goes, there is a point of no escape when one passes the event horizon (the new now).
There is no need to say goodbye or offer parting words; simply fade away. "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, April 19, 1951