A year ago.... where or what were you?

[SierraMoon]

Well, i just read what i wrote a year ago, and i answered the question for then also. LOL.

In the past year, i lost my job in May, due to them shutting my center down, and my Dom and i went through many things, but they seemed to bring us closer to each other.

i think we discovered that we are more than Dom/sub. We are very good friends, with a solid foundation that has helped us through many very difficult times.

i moved from AZ 3 months ago, to be with Him. We are in a 24/7 relationship now, and He is my Master and i am His slave.

i just recently started working here, and i really like my job. i work with really great people.

Life is very good

 

[FungiUg]

A year ago...

My lover and I were finally moving in to a house we bought together. So I've had a year of learning to live with teenagers, much less personal space or privacy, and way less spending money.

Our submissive had found a dominant man of her own, and we parted ways. No real change since.

My health has had it's ups and downs... my migraines are improving slowly, my weight is down a bit, but I lost about a month of income to a chest infection and back problems.

We had my family over from various parts of the globe for New Years, whereas this Christmas my lover and I are off to Melbourne to spend some time by ourselves.

It kind of feels like an "in between" year -- no where near as dramatic as last year. I don't expect that to last though.

 

[Bandit58]

A year ago I was trying not to think about having to leave Master after my first visit to Him, and all the things I would have to do to prepare to uproot myself and move across the ditch to a new life with Him. I would be leaving everything I had ever known, and my family, to go live in a city with a population bigger than the whole country I came from

Since we have been together, there have been a few health dramas, He was seriously ill in June and spent 11 days in hospital. I found out just how strong I was and could be. It has been a long road, always seeming to be something going wrong with His health, but we are looking forward positively to the New Year. I was granted a carer pension in August which has helped dramatically with our finances and taken the pressure off trying to find work (which was damn near impossible when Master was so ill).

I am looking forward to my training being stepped up as His health improves and also stepping up the search for a female friend to explore my bisexuality with. I have grown in confidence this past year.....to the point of posing for the pic in my av, and posting it, without blushing! Master is looking forward to taking more pics of me in future.....

 

[CutieMouse]

*****

 

[TigerClaw]

Just a Few days past One Year Ago

Then:
I walked to my car in the bitter cold of the Night. The Flame that defined me had gone out. (so I thought). That night the there was no inner warmth to keep the cold out. I could feel the cold penetrate my skin. Deep down to my soul. That night it seemed like Deaths grip touched my heart. That instant I felt Dead Inside. I will never forget that feeling.

Now:
I myself warm my soul. I am not cold in the Wintery Night. I have the door open for friends and I share and enjoy their company. I am enjoying now more then I would have imagined back then. I have met people where I was and I am using what I learned to help them through their tradgedy. I swore back then I was not going to let it harm me. It may not have been as easy as I thought but I did it.

 

[RachaelStar]

well a year ago I was just 17 now Im 18, do I feel any different? no not really I new just as much then as I did now.

I wonder what I will feel like when I'm 21? hmm?!!

 

[Xelebes]

A year ago I didn't know what BDSM stood for. I came across the acronym a few times here and there. To say that I am closer to experiencing my first chance with BDSM has not come closer to fruition over the past year other than experiments I have done on myself over the years while not being able to classify what it was I was doing.

But reading up on it more and more and reasing of the several fantasies has tripped a wire in my brain craving for this and realising my desires and such. It has also made me aware of the schism in types of women and the line the few that blur that schism as to make me ignorant of the schism beforehand. Not to say it is all black and white as I did mention but it made me more aware of the two different types and how they were of all different colours and stripes and not just pretentious goths riddled by anxiety - not to say that is a bad thing as it too can be quite sexy in a different light.

 

[catalina_francisco]

Bump.....

 

[tealsphynx]

Lets see, a year ago I was working 36 hours a week in a pizza stand in a food court while going to school 18 hours and getting NOWHERE in my attempts for a degree...burning the candle at both ends boy did it suck. Almost exactly a year ago I broke up with my beau of 3 years, realizing it was turning into a sexually abusive and controlling relationship. Seeing as since then I have learned I am more the Domme type it is understanding why I was so unhappy in a controlling relationship. I had just decided to move to my Dad's, mostly in an attempt to make him happy and was taking steps to put said plan into effect.
Now I am a mother, a wife and still learning more about WHO I am...interesting how doing something just to make my dad happy could turn out to be one of the best decisions in my life. Dad was at first not too happy about the first two of these discoveries and does not know about the third (I don't exactly parade my discover as a Domme around him). Now he is the happiest dad and grandad I've ever seen!

 

[jasonlf]

A year ago, eh?

I was just putting in my two week notice at a computer store that loved cheating their customers and employees -- a move that was followed by about 5-6 months of un/underemployment.

Yeah, that sucked

 

[Marquis]

Going nuts.

 

[curiousjen]

A year ago I was highly strung out with my dissertation and my finals- worrying if i'd ever get through them and what kind of mark I'd get. I was living with owen and another couple (not in a sexual way just to save money) which got very cramped and turned ugly. Apart from the horrible living situation I was pretty happy, things were good between me and O (though they always have been) and I was feeling pretty confident about the future.

A year later and things are even better.I got my degree and a good mark too. I'm married and understand my role in life....to suck cock...or more seriously to serve him....I have chosen my career (occupational therapy) and begin training in october. Best of all I now live in a flat on my own with owen- no annoying other people and we've become stronger and more together because of it.

This is the kind of thread where i could write an essay for an answer but I'll leave it at that!

 

[hazel43]

The only thing I remember doing was studying for a chemistry exam.

 

[Aeroil]

I was shifting names a lot a year ago, Acorleat, Kalo, Vael, Sernrol (all characters from my book) before I decided to finally settle with Aeroil.
Err, more seriously who I was? the same person, really, just not so much aware of who I was.

 

[redelicious]

LOL, this time last year I was trying anything I could think of to entice my daughter to come into the world. She was two weeks late.

And now, instead of reading/fantasizing about BDSM I am at least playing at it. I'm still working on that one relationship. Don't think that will ever change.

 

[YinandYang]

A year ago I started to find 'me'...a total time of reflection and just being. Taking time out after my divorce and just being with my kids, lots of nature walks. I was preparing for an art aution, started studying and began doing spirit guide art for people. My Mum was diagnosed with breast cancer, and is still fighting but doing well. My oldest started school, and my youngest started pre school.

 

[Little Bird]

I think it will be in about three or four days or so, that precisly one year ago I fell in love for the first time...

We lost contact half a year ago and I heard only twice from her again: She met friends of me and told them to greet me from her...

It makes me a bit sad now, thinking of her, but I think she was right in the way she choosed then. She was four years older than me (I was 20) and at least eight years ahead of me regarding sexual things...

But in fact, im very happy now: I found a new friend and we got VERY close, despite quite a long distance between us. Tonight she's away but she will bring a digi-cam back, when she gets home tomorrow...

 

[Killishandra]

A year ago...

...I was still trying to deny to myself that I need more than just bedroom S&M - I need real D/s in my life, with a dominant partner.

Glad I got over that hurdle.

 

[laurel-marie]

A year ago I was out of commission. No real growth happening in my sexual walk...mental and physical.
Now a year before that, I discovered I was a sexual creature, learned about BDSM, and the name attached to my nature was called submissive. A very big year.

 

[sphynx's dragon]

A year ago...well. I was about to give up on things, was trying to figure out life after my first wife. She had problems. Some of them with my sub nature. Mostly with trust issues...mainly her not being trustworthy. Giving up almost on the dating scene...had no idea as to this lifestlye for real. <sigh> Now I'm married, a father and a happily collared sub. Life has changed unbelievabely in the last year...and almost all thanks to my Lady Sphynx.

 

[Honeysucklevine]

A year ago, after having had a lousy experience in my submissive rush into BDSM, I was taking a break. In fact, I was denying that D/s had a place in my life .

Like NemoAlia, I, too, am taking things much slower and am in a much better head space when it comes to chosing play partners or a potential "suitor" *giggles*

IN terms of other facets of my life, things were very difficult on the home front with finances and health issues. Fortunately, the health issues have resolved. The financial picture hasn't changed but a few wise choices on my part of made it manageable and a new job is in the offing.

They say it takes three years to get back on your feet after a divorce. I am two thirds of hte way there!

Onward and upward!

3 years! I am only 1/4 of the way. And yes, it is the
finances that are hard to overcome. Change? Everyone should look back at their previous posts or better yet, their conversations with a "friend" on the infamous INSTANT MESSENGER service. Oh yes, you will see lots of CHANGE. It is inevitable. The question is, can your partner in life grow or change with you? Do you leave them behind or wait for them to catch up?

 

[Deadly Guardian]

A year ago I was in a sometime BDSM thing. It has ended in spite of my best efforts. Now I am finally heading in the direction my lifestyle wishes to go. With continuing efforts and love we will be back in the BDSM scene. Be it public or private.

 

[FurryFury]

A year ago, I was having the same dark fantasies during sex that I always have. Never knowing there was a term for it or really, anything much about all this. My libido was a wee bit less overactive then. Liking this year better! *winks*

 

[Pleasureboy2]

A year ago, I was having the same dark fantasies during sex that I always have. Never knowing there was a term for it or really, anything much about all this. My libido was a wee bit less overactive then. Liking this year better! *winks*

Me too! .. .

 

[FurryFury]

Me too! .. .

*hugs*

Fury