Domination and Mastery

It is easy for a Master to become too at ease and complacent. Today both girls are in chastisement for different reasons. Suffice it to say that if the hand is not firm enough with a slave she will quickly lose her way, get confused, and fail at complying with the most basic tenets of the TPE/IE life she has accepted and submitted to. I become complacent with homelife when I am too strained at work, tired from insomnia and other issues, and generally happy with myself and our family. Even though I remain very happy with the family, I have been forced to realize that things are nowhere near 100% and action was needed.
A slave, unlike anyone else, no longer moves simply within the space they open up as human beings. Rather they share the space their Master opens up, and can only find their way when they are properly directed by the Master, who is familiar with the terrain and can guide their vision. In sharing this space, this “there” that the Master provides for them, they must find their only solace and satisfaction, and must find their will being guided and directed in union with their Master’s, so that when they do go astray, upon being reigned in will wish for and delight in the chastisement the Master chooses for them.

It is easy for a Master to become too at ease and complacent. Today both girls are in chastisement for different reasons. Suffice it to say that if the hand is not firm enough with a slave she will quickly lose her way, get confused, and fail at complying with the most basic tenets of the TPE/IE life she has accepted and submitted to. I become complacent with homelife when I am too strained at work, tired from insomnia and other issues, and generally happy with myself and our family. Even though I remain very happy with the family, I have been forced to realize that things are nowhere near 100% and action was needed.
A slave, unlike anyone else, no longer moves simply within the space they open up as human beings. Rather they share the space their Master opens up, and can only find their way when they are properly directed by the Master, who is familiar with the terrain and can guide their vision. In sharing this space, this “there” that the Master provides for them, they must find their only solace and satisfaction, and must find their will being guided and directed in union with their Master’s, so that when they do go astray, upon being reigned in will wish for and delight in the chastisement the Master chooses for them.

Poly and Then Some: questions

My emmie came up with a post that has set my mind working and this is not going to be a definitive statement on it. The relationship between love and Mastery is extremely complex and more than a little mysterious to me. I’ve been trying to understand the relationship in terms of various types of care to this point but although I’m fairly confident in relating love as a type of care, it is so qualitatively different from other concerns, “cares”, troubles, responsibilities that it is difficult to pin down. Mastery is definitely akin to love in the responsibilities that it lays upon the Master, as love does to the lover. And I can’t really imagine a full fledged Mastery of someone without love being requisite. But then there’s the difference between love and “in love”, and the infinitely varying degrees of “in love”, and is passion the same as love in this instance or not? And of course I’m drawing out and pulling up more questions than answers myself.