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Kind of out there and kind of lengthy...
A part of me registered here out of sheer desperation, if only just to share my own experience in the hope someone can relate. Allow me to explain. I am 23, and unlike most adults my age (male or female), I know what I want, I do not have time to waste, and I HATE playing games. Hence, I usually find it hard to relate to people my age, and often I am drawn to people 15 years older than me. And yes, age is just a number, but at the end of the day, don’t you want to be with someone who can share the same cycles of life with you? I cannot see someone who is 40 willing to put up with the fact that I am still in school, and, thus, not fully financially secure, in addition to the breakneck speed at which I live my life. Which brings me to my next point. I am a very busy person as a young professional - I am in school and I work. I am independent - have been since I was 19. I live alone, and I do what it takes to make ends meet and to pursue my passions. While being an introvert, I have a strong and intense personality, that, I’ve been told, intimidates many people, especially men who cannot keep up with me in my field of study. I am often teased for coming across “innocent” and am often withdrawn and quiet in social situations. But I am very analytical - I process everything around me, notice the smallest details that others don’t, and can analyze emotional tensions in a room. My mind runs faster than I can keep up with at times, and I am grateful for my intellect, but also am profoundly aware of how much there is still to know and how much may never be known. From all this perhaps, I might consider myself a sapiosexual. But enough on that.
If you’ve made it this far, you have seen a glimpse of the intensity I possess, and perhaps a sliver of insanity. Again, this makes it difficult for me to mesh well with anyone my age, even more so with a potential partner. As an objective person viewing my life, one might might be surprised that my intimate desires are so strongly submissive. But again this makes it even harder to find a partner. The balance that I want between my “home” life and “outside” life is hard to understand and most strong Doms that I have met have no interest in this. Perhaps I won’t meet one that does, but as I’m still young, I hold out hope. It doesn’t help me either that I am so picky with a Dom. I had my first real life D/s experience about 5 years ago, and ever since then, I have continued to learn more and more about my own desires. I recognized within myself the capacity to surrender completely and willingly to my partner. This was terrifying to me when I first experienced it, because it is also very dangerous. I have to make sure I am trusting the right person - a person who won’t abuse it. I won’t speak of all my specific interests here, but I greatly enjoy pain and the pushing of my limits - but there is a fine line between pushing too far and breaking me physically versus pushing me in a way to make me further realize the submissive character within myself. I would hope that a good Dom knows that difference. For me, in particular, my Dom would have to be able to know me and my limits and, more importantly, read my body language at any given time. When I say I have the capacity to surrender completely, I don’t say that lightly, and I mean it in its truest sense. Once I have made a decision to trust someone like that, I am the type of submissive that will let that person do anything to me, even if it breaks my limits. That is why I must be picky with who I choose, since the person would hopefully respect my limits and know just how far they can push without causing me trauma. Because if I am with the wrong person who breaks my limits and hurts me, I am so submissive to the point that I would let it happen regardless. Hopefully this makes a bit of sense, as I have written quite a lot about it. For me, this type of relationship is definitely more about the power exchange and trust dynamics at play versus the actual physical actions that are performed.
As I have already written too much, I won’t continue on, though there is much more I could say. And, if you’ve made it all the way through this lengthy exposition, I just want to say thank you.
August 10, 2020 at 9:36 PM