Party

I am very private about my relationship (except, oddly, in keeping this blog). I have told one of my real life friends a tiny bit about my relationship, but I don't think he really got it. I think things are better that way because I don't know how I'd even start to explain things the way they actually are.

I have wonderful commenters and fellow-bloggers who really get where I am coming from. There are several of you in particular who really understand and who are going through the same experiences - the exact same ones, imagine - but I won't embarass you by mentioning you by name. Just know that I love reading your blogs and feel better because you understand the beautiful and the ugly parts of my life.

That said, I don't have any real friends in "the lifestyle." Those aren't sarcastic quotes, but more illustrative of what my view on community and BDSM has been since I started with Him, which is to say that I have no view of community and BDSM. I've been with Him for a year and never once have I thought that anyone else besides the two of us is part of what we do and there has been no stopping this once we began. It's funny, because I see new submissives commonly asking others online for tips on how to start this, and I'm never able to give advice. I don't know how to start. I didn't plan this. It just happened. Submission just happens.

I'm owned and what we do may look like M/s or D/s or whatever, but we don't put labels on it. I've never waded into all of those internet arguments about whose relationship is more real than anyone else's, or whether my lack of a safeword is abuse, or whether we've negotiated and contracted every last detail of this crazy journey that we've been on. (Answers: (1) my relationship is real and the rest of you can figure out your own relationships, (2) I don't have a safeword and I'm not abused and I like it that way, and (3) no negotiations and no acronyms and it's scary/wonderful that way.)

Anyway, my therapist thinks that I need to have friends in "the lifestyle," not because I need to go to a workshop to learn how to be spanked (which I don't and I'm strenuously against more classes, as if I didn't spend the first 25 years of my life locked in a classroom), but because I need people in my life who accept my relationship and don't need it explained to them. People who just get it.

So! He and I will be going to our first party this weekend at the invitation of the owners of a local dungeon. I'm intimidated as hell by the people because I'm sure I'll come off as young and naive and won't have an answer to the questions about how long I've been part of "the scene." (Answer: For about 10 minutes.) And more importantly, I have sexy lingerie but no actual fetish wear. What am I supposed to wear?!?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

i love this post!!
it puts it all into a certain context for me... you are so lucky to have found each other.
i think you should wear what he tells you too!
x

Anonymous said...

I agree with anonymous. Wear what HE thinks will look good!

I don't have a safeword either. I think its very hard to utter a safeword, when I am gagged and my face is buried in the carpet. He reads my reactions and my body language and I trust in that.

I don't have any friends in the lifestyle either. Except online friends, its not like I run down the local coffee shop for the weekly meeting of the bad slaves club. Hehe.

We do our own thing and like you, that works for us. I love reading your blog. There is no pretence, no bullshit and just honesty.

Thats why I love to read you all the time.

Hugs

bliss
xoxox

Mr Upton Ogood said...

If you're planning on playing, something sexy that you can out of easily or old if he's planning on cutting/tearing/ripping it off. Otherwise, whatever you're comfy in. Oh...if you're playing, bring a blanket or wrap for aftercare and so you can stroll around and watch while you wait for "part 2" ;-)

Have fun...they're just people.

Upton

Anonymous said...

Wear whatever he wants you too, and the sexy lingerie is just fine at a dungeon party. :)

Anonymous said...

i've been thinking about wanting to cultivate more friends in the lifestyle too. i am fortunate that i have several close friends who know about my relationship and who i can be honest with. But i'm in a place in my life where i'd like to start making new friends, and it feels like my conversation is limited when i have to completely avoid mentioning a huge part of my life (i can't even acknowledge my Master's existence as my SO in most situations). So it feels like meeting lifestyle people would help with that, maybe.