The blog has been quiet but we sure haven’t been.
Back when I only had access to the blogs of other people who were doing this as their lifestyle, as something they didn’t even blink an eye at, I couldn’t understand what they meant by always being ‘on’. I figured with personality came the ability to tell another how to serve and with the submissive personality came the ability to serve, even without the extra spice of kink coloring every interaction. I figured life would just fit together as nicely as that. I’ve recently discovered I was wrong. I knew I would be, but until I could live through it myself, I didn’t realize just how wrong I could be.
We’ve been caught up in just getting him moved in and settled, which took more weekends than we thought it would. It also took paying an extra month’s rent at his last apartment to cover all the time we needed and the lack of notice that we were able to give. Immediately after that, my husband went out of town to help my pup and his family move as well. Their move was more epic than ours, so I heard, and I was a bit happy about not having gone with. Sad that I didn’t get to see my pup, but I already know that I’m not terribly useful in those situations. I don’t have the brute strength to haul furniture, nor the stamina to keep on truckin’ with a good attitude for eight, ten, twelve hours, or the know-how to stay out of the way without secretly (and not so secretly) irritating people. I can organize and direct, but that wasn’t going to help them that weekend. Instead, I stayed home with my kitten.
That weekend we were making up a missed week of agility with the dog due to an incident at his daycare that left a gash underneath his eye requiring six stitches. No one knows what happened and so we’ve decided not to take him back to that particular daycare. It was nice to have two days of agility and it kept us on something of a schedule despite it being a long weekend where we’re normally sleep in. That weekend was also the first weekend that I really felt the vanilly take its toll.
While we were planning some time together, including a picnic after dark to watch the fireworks together (which didn’t pan out, but did result in us having a picnic in the basement and watching bad 70′s movies), our time together wasn’t quite like the time that we’d spent together before. I used to go to his apartment and we were both immediately on. Even when we’d get together during the week, for the most part, we were on. Living together makes it a little more difficult because while he’s still doing things to help me out, there’s not exactly an exchange of power or kink. It’s more like he needs to feed the dog while I shower otherwise I’m going to be late for work.
As Sunday night rolled around and we hadn’t had any true intimate time together, I curled up with him and we talked. He was in one of his moods where he felt he wasn’t enough, wasn’t ever going to be good enough, and wondered why I chose him out of so many others. The way he was saying though, he was asking if I wouldn’t be happier without him which struck such a chord with me. I couldn’t imagine being without him, even though we often have our emotional days together. Despite the fact that times are just a little rough now. We have the stress of losing a paycheck in the household and not knowing when he’s going to have a job again. We’re lacking that purpose that I dare say gives him something to do during the day. That general purpose and ability to provide for his family that I know he’s talked about being important to him in the past. We’re dealing with seeing each other all the time. We don’t have any time away from one another except when I’m at work or on the rare nights where he goes downstairs to read, since my office is also his.
After we spent that night talking, which ended in a rather nice spanking, things went right back to the way they’d been, which isn’t to say that they’re bad, they’re just not what either of us really signed up for.
Tonight, after having a rough day, I bought him a few drinks and we came home and had a good time together. We were able to just curl up and talk. Our conversation carried over a bit from last night, when we were talking about how we needed to get back to some of the basics, such as him wearing his cuffs and collar and also being nude while in the house. We stopped the collar and cuffs because of his skin condition and how he was breaking out from wearing them and the nudity ceased because hey, my husband isn’t so keen on seeing another naked man walking around the house. We’re compromising by just keeping the office door closed so he can be nude while we’re in here together and also while we’re in the basement together. Something that I’m working on personally is setting aside some time where I can just focus on him, because I’ve discovered that while he may feel he needs my time and attention, he feels bad asking for it.
So aside from those few things, we’re having a marvelous time. We get along even better than before, we laugh more than ever, and I’ve found that my pet makes a pretty good daddy to our little furry one. I really couldn’t ask for more.


