A dominant should be responsible. He should be realistic in his expectations and in his practices. He should have the wisdom to understand that life, real-life, gets in the way sometimes and you have to yield to it.

A dominant should have the cunning to keep a submissive on her toes, but the understanding to lend a shoulder when she needs it. A dominant should be consistant in both enforcing rules and maintaining discipline.

First and foremostly, though, a dominant is a person. He's fallible, he makes errors in judgment and in decisions. It's part of being human. And just like any other person, a dominant needs emotional support, love and care.

Just like submissives are not doormats or valueless little things, like cattle, a dominant is not a stone cold, emotionless beast of a man either.

Basically, a dominant is responsible for being himself, providing the same amount love and care he expects to receive in return, setting tasks and rules and then consistantly enforcing them through discipline, and showing that he is an emotional human being with a soul and with the capability for caring and concern as well as the potential for strictness and sternness.

Does that help at all?