Sunday, January 25, 2015

Pleasing versus Submitting

I realize there's two parts of my personality that are similar, but quite different.  I like to please people--most people.  I bring my clients homemade brownies; I buy my family members things that remind me of them; I gave the woman who makes my coffee at Dunkin Donuts a $25 gift card this Christmas.  My first Dom said I was the most thoughtful person he'd ever known.  But that is really different from being submissive.  If a guy (like my first Dom, known on this blog as "the ex") mistakes my thoughtfulness for submissiveness and takes my thoughtfulness as his due as a Dom, I got really burnt out.  I don't know now to keep them clear.  But I do think it is important to figure that one out.