A few questions about The lifestyle

[Spike74]

Hello, I'm mostly new to all of this, and newer to this website. I'll do the best to descibe the situation as best I can here, and hopefully some of you can help me with my question.

I have been in a relationship for the last 7 months, my girlfriend and I are both in college, different cities. before we went off to college, we started to delve into bondage, it just happened naturally. I would tie her wrists, she liked it, i went along with it. As we went off to college, we've done the whole phone sex thing, and I started to go more into the humiliation, (mostly name calling). Shes turned on by being tied up and totally under my control, and I like that she relies on me, trusts me, and i would try anything for this girl.

So i started to look into all of this, websites, videos, and toys to get a better idea. We've both talked about it, what we like about it, what we don't, same with what we want to try and what we don't. we both want to try it in the near future (possibly thanksgiving break) I've read that once you tried bondage or the D/s relationship (and you both enjoy it) you cant really go back to vanilla.

However even if i like the bondage, i still enjoy the vanilla just as much. does anyone here have vanilla as well? can you separate the two? is it really true that you can't go back? I dont know if these are the right questions to ask, but please let me know what you think. Thanks for your time and advice in advance!