The Responsibilities of a Dominant/Master

[spike]

I wasn't going to copy the list out again and waste everybody's space, but my post ended up on the next page!

• Time
• Attention
• Love
• Cares about me
• Listens to me/Hears me
• Honesty/Trust
• Ability to communicate
• Ability to guide
• Respect

Of the nine items there the only one that is not an essential part of the contribution of both sides to any close relationship is '8. Ability to guide'. The difference from vanilla being pointed out by just about all those posting to this thread, even Texxx in his way, is that one side is taking responsibility for guidance of the other.

It is a huge responsibility amounting to being parent as well as lover. To give that much care requires a special concentration of effort, just as responding to it does.

But it seems to me that Pandora feels she is being short-changed in other categories as well. Perhaps she and her Master should discuss their relationship as a whole as much as the D/s part.

Spike