hurtloam wrote:
Not everything is black and white. You can't just class people as either dominant or submissive.
Most of us are somewhere in between and want someone in between the two extremes.
However, no one wants to be someone's mother if they are looking for a grown up husband or partner. They don't want to be a PA either. They want to be with a responsible adult that can remember to pay a bill when it needs to be done, they don't want to be the person always having to remember stuff, like when to take the car to the mechanic when it's time for a service.
If one person in the relationship always needs to be the responsible party they will get drained easily and feel used and will resent the one who never lifts a finger.
Yes! Vanilla relationships need a dominant and a submissive like a lesbian relationship needs a man and a woman.
I've never looked at anyone I've had feelings for as dominant or submissive. They were just people who were too shy to ask me out, who were much more outgoing and comfortable with themselves than me, etc. Dominant and submissive are power words.