Six Foot Four
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1 year ago •
Mar 13, 2023
1 year ago •
Mar 13, 2023
As multiple respondents have stated, whatever you decide is whatever you decide. The TPE component means that all authority passes from the submissive to their dominant. He has total authority; the right, but not the obligation, to decide anything for you within whatever realms y'all have negotiated for. The 24/7 bit means there's no such thing as an on/off switch. Some folks want TPE only in the bedroom or in the house or not-at-work and some want it always. The live-in bit just means you live together and might be the best way to really immerse yourself in your roles, but realize that often work and family and life situations will arise and need to be dealt with together.
It’s been my experience that most TPE couples from the outside just look like normal couples, though one might defer to the other all the time and some folks might find it odd or abusive. Ordering for someone in a restaurant could be viewed as old-fashioned or controlling or it could be viewed as the Master informing the slave of their desires depending on your lens.
Shall we engage in Real Talk for a moment? A one bedroom apartment in LA is going to cost you slightly less than 30K/year. If you are making $100K on the coasts in or near major metropolitan areas, you are barely getting by. Most people don’t make 100K, so most likely both of you will have to work. Are you prepared to move to a cheaper location to make the live-in component work? Others have raised good points; there is a lot to talk about and each dynamic is different because the people in them are different.
As a submissive, what you need to realize is that y’all can be a lot of work. Some subs like to talk about their submission as a gift. Gifts don’t come with strings; they are freely given from the giver to the receiver. What you are actually offering is a full-time unpaid job that requires being on-call. And if you want micromanagement? Hoo-boy! Take that second job and add a third unpaid, full-time on-call job to it. Micromanagement is like taking a normal BDSM relationship, raising it by an order of magnitude and then turning it up to eleven. That’s how much work micromanagement can be.
Micromanagement is naturally required in some situations when folks are new to their roles, be it in life itself or in a relationship or in the workplace. New persons don’t know what’s good and what’s bad and what’s safe and what’s not-safe. You teach them and if you as a leader do a good job, and they as a subordinate do a good job, over time they’ll need less and less oversight and can be trusted to do things the way you want them done. Micromanagement can be funsies occasionally, but for me, as an all-the-time lifestyle choice, hard limit. I expect my property to have a brain and use it.
Some people write out ninety-eight page contracts replete with every little thing, but unless both participants have an eidetic memory, that creates a situation ripe for failure. I’m unlikely to remember every detail in a long document, and I’m guessing you’re unlikely to either. I prefer to assess where both parties are in their lives, where they want to go, how they’ll get there together, and then create a plan.
I’m not actually opposed to the way sTC described it, but I have never formed a dynamic with someone who was already in the BDSM world; both of my LTRs have been with girls met in the vanilla world. I didn’t want to overwhelm a new partner, so I started small with a few guidelines and as those changes took hold and transitioned from ‘new thing’ to ‘normal,’ I added in further guidelines that established boundaries for her to operate within.
I had…or have, I suppose… what we called 24/7 TPE. Didn’t start there; came as a bit of a surprise. There came a time when I was negotiating at work all day and I didn’t want to negotiate at home anymore. She was a control freak, and wanted to be able to let go completely; responsible, but not in charge. 24/7 TPE was where we ended up and it worked well for her and I for a long time. I have her blanket consent for anything and everything indefinitely. The way I describe it is 'I do whatever I want, and she does whatever I want.' Now, did I ever expect that I’d use her consent to curtail our M/s activities and eventually stop them completely? Nope. But that’s what you’re asking in a TPE; you’re asking your Master to assume total control of and for your well-being.
I don’t know if DXX’s study is right, but I have had several subs ask me out of the blue if I would be willing to have them move in with me. I….huh? What? That it’s happened more than once is just... *shrugs*
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