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They don't understand what it’s like submitting to someone you trust with your life, and allowing them to remove every stitch of stress from your flesh. Giving it all to a person who can handle it for you, massaging you with pain and pleasure until the world melts away.
A Dominant would make the first move.
What is it about fake Doms wanting subs to drink water all the time?
You're very observant.” “Only with things that earn my attention,
“If I had to, to make sure you feel safe? Yes.”
“To make sure that you feel safe,”
I want a man I can trust with my pain, both metaphorically and literally. I want someone who deserves my submission—someone who has earned it by proving themselves to be reliable, authentic, and authoritative. I want to kneel for someone who I know will always stand for me—someone willing to fight and die for me, remain peaceful and live for me, take all of my pain and frustrations away and make me forget that the world exists.
Someone willing to explore ever-changing feelings and passions with me as we grow old together and become closer with the passing of time. I want to give myself to someone in every way possible and allow them to use me, hurt me, love me, break me—because I can always trust that they know exactly how to put me back together again. It requires someone who knows each and every single piece of me and how they all fit together, because I want to be shattered and broken apart so that I can forget the world, and then be restored by the one person capable of building me back up.”
“I want to be trusted to take the control I so strongly desire. I want it given to me, handed over like a delicate flower that will die if I don't care for it perfectly. I want to know someone so thoroughly that I’m just as knowledgeable on who they are as they themselves, if not more. I want to inflict pain. I want to cause damage and bruise skin, and I want to nurture it all back to perfect health so that it is stronger than it was before. “Submission is the greatest gift I can ever be given, because it means I've earned the right to be someone’s entire world, and entrusted with the
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“No, Sir. Making you happy will make me happy,” she admits, and it sends a chill swirling through my insides. There isn't a person in the world who doesn't want to hear that, Dom or not.
He lets out a low growl from the back of his throat, the animal in him taking control
I guess what I'm asking for is the opportunity to earn you. Can I do that?”
Being a Dominant is more than just a title for him. It is his way of life. He dominates everything around him, owning it all without having to announce it or brag. He steps into the room and everyone takes notice—he even owns the people in his presence without needing to beat them into submission.
because it’s natural for me to feel submissive, but I always want it to be earned. It’s not something I am ever willing to just give away for free. Once it’s earned, I'm at my happiest.”
“How important is it to you that you're in a D/s dynamic?” he asks, continuing to eat his food as if we’re not talking about deep, explicit parts of our lives. “It’s instrumental,”
“Because it takes absolutely all control away from me. I can't move or shrink away to show my nervousness. I have no choice but to submit—to be completely controlled. To be used by someone of my choosing. To be owned.
Sir works just fine for me,
In a world full of danger for women, safety is paramount, and it is a rarity to find a man both willing and capable of providing it without being a bully himself.
Then I saw him cry. In front of me and a staring group of strangers, I watched as Rome let go of the notion that masculinity was inherently tied to immovable toughness and emotionlessness. He broke for me, split himself open and bared his soul for the world to gawk at, all while maintaining his sense of self. Through his vulnerability, he showed why he is the perfect Dom.
Women are yearning, more than ever, for men to not suck, but I'm not seeing improvement.
