Resilient Pearl wrote:
@MasterBear & Fudbar:
Appreciate the responses.
I’ll rephrase to be more inclusive:
• Were you in a monogamous relationship with your current partner before joining this community? If not, what was your relationship dynamic at that time;
• After identifying with this community, with your partner(s), what challenges did you face, navigating/exploring together or separately. For example, did your previous relationship dynamic (mono, or non-mono - any variation of..) change;
• Where there resources you and/or your partners benefited from - individually or separately - to help navigate that change in relationship dynamic I/A;
• Transcending previous limitations: did you and/or your partner(s) ‘dip your toes in,’ jump in ‘with both/many feet,’ or some combination of the two?
Please feel free to be as candid and detailed as you feel comfortable with.
Gratitude,
-RP
Then, to answer your questions
- My partner and I are still monogamous. I simply have no interest in finding someone else, and he respect that and loves me enough that he is fine staying so for as long as needed, even if it never changes. It might have to do with me being Demi, I dont really have other people I'm interested in because of it, it's a new line of thought I'm exploring. Dunno Haha.
-Challenges so far really have been the fact that I was vanilla when we met. It made things harder o him, not having a Domme from the get-go. I didnt understand him as well as I should have, and it forced him to do things he didnt want. But, I like to think that now that I'm learning that is getting better. I'm able to take more of the burdens from him. So our dynamic went from vanilla to BDSM.
-He already knew so much about the lifestyle. But he pointed me in the direction of the book, "Leading and Supporting Love", which I feel like has helped me put a /lot/ in understanding. And then we came here, and getting to talk to more like-minded people has helped me understand even more
-Kinda depends. Technically I would say we jumped right in, since there wasnt much of an introduction period. But, it did take a while before we did so, because of my misunderstandings x.x