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As we know, all relationships should be entirely equal.
And of course that’s a good idea.
Certainly, no one should ever pressured or coerced or argured into having an unequal relationship.
But what if you don’t want an entirely equal relationship? All the time?
After all, it wouldn’t have to be for forever. It could be for… a week. A day. An hour. Five minutes.
You can go on a roller coaster ride, without committing to staying on the roller coaster for your entire life.
Or, perhaps you might to have some particular kind of unequalness… without having to be unequal in every way.
What sort of ways might you want to be unequal, if indeed you wanted to?
Perhaps you might like to surrender?
You certainly don’t have to.
Even if you do want to go on a roller coaster ride, you can still choose which ride you want.
And if you would like to surrender, of course you can have your limits and boundaries, rules and requirements… whatever you need in order to be able to surrender.
These are all necessary, much like you wouldn’t go on a roller coaster ride if the result was going to be hospitalization with major injuries.
But that’s not the important question. The important question is do you want to go on the roller coaster ride? Do you want to surrender?
Do you want me to do whatever I want with you? (Within, of course, the necessary limits, on so on)?
And if you can’t then do anything you want with me, is that fair?
Of course that’s not fair.
Do you want fair?
Maybe you do want fair for most of your life.
But always?
Perhaps on occasion you become weary of fair. Too bland, too boring. Too exhausting to always be weighing everything.
There are other ways you could be unequal, if you wanted to.
Maybe you might want to be controlled.
Within, yes, as always, any necessary boundaries and so on. No, you don’t need to risk being fed to alligators just because you obey me.
Yet you can give up choice. Give up making decisions. Simply do what I tell you to do. Without effort, without resistance.
And if I don’t obey you? Well, we’re not trying to be equal here.
Perhaps you might like to tell me the truth.
Only the truth.
The entire truth. Everything about you.
You hold nothing back.
And if I don’t tell you my truth in return?
Well, maybe you don’t want a relationship which is unequal in this way. Perhaps you want an equal relationship, where you tell the truth to your partner, and your partner tells the truth to you. You share equally.
Or, perhaps, maybe you don’t.
Perhaps you don’t want to have to know anything about me.
What other ways could we be unequal, if you wanted to be?
I could have complete control over your sexuality. Where you’d be unable to resist my giving you sexual pleasure at any time, and unable to enjoy sexual pleasure without me.
And would you have any control over my sexuality? No.
Fair? Equal? Not at all.
Maybe you might perhaps want me to have control over your emotions.
I could cause you to feel sad or happy. Angry or blissful. Create feelings of anguish or devotion. Choose what you desire.
And, naturally, you’d have no control over my emotions.
Perhaps you might want me to have control over your moral values.
To choose what you should be doing. What you feel guilty about. Your purpose. What makes you a good person.
Or not.
Maybe you don’t want to be unequal.
At all.
Which of course is fine.
Most people don’t.
It can be useful to say, “No, this isn’t what I want.”
You might perhaps want something similar, something related, something this suggests to you… but not this.
Now you don’t need to go down the wrong path. You can find what you want.
Or maybe perhaps you do want to be unequal.
In some way.
For some period of time.
With your own necessary rules and boundaries.
A choice you can make… if you want to.
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