How were you raised?

[sunfox]

I'm the baby.. youngest of two, and spoiled. Everyone gave me everything I wanted.

Not sure where submission fits in with that.

I'm also adopted, though, so in technical terms, I was also the firstborn, of my biological mother.

Maybe that accounts for the twist.

 

[Netzach]

Only.

 

[garylee]

upbringing?

ah lawdy 'chile.
k,..here's how it is.
''i'' was raised in a paternal order household. if you are female,...you shut the hell up when the males walk in the house....period.
men are lord and master....deal with it.
how does that affect me today?
i dunno.
i am now in a matriachial world...my Ma'am runs my life.......

go figure!
garylee

 

[Hajar]

I'm my mother's only and my father's last

 

[ImmortaleAmante]

For many years i tried to convince myself that my Domme side was just who i was and had nothing to do with my upbringing. Now i disagree, the way i was raised most certainly helped to develope this part of who i am but i deeply believe that that was only because there was already that seed inside of me.

My personality is a dominate one and its in contrast to my siblings but my upbringing meant that i had to develope and explore that side further and now i accept who i am, why i am that way whatever the influences where, and i enjoy myself as fully as possible.

 

[Zaudika]

I was raised in a family of 6 - four kids - both parents around aside from one seperation for a little while.
I was the second born.
Raised with a strict religious background. Very sheltered from movies, music, and really most of the 'real' world.

Once I was old enough to venture out on my own I explored a bit too freely the first couple of years, and eventually found my place as a submissive in the world of BDSM a few years later.

That's the very short of the long story. Overall I think the way I was raised gave me a lot of great values and taught me respect for people and their own beliefs / ways of life. However there are many times that I wish I would have been less sheltered in the hopes that I wouldn't have had such a wild outburst of discovering the world right in the beginning.

End all.. it all worked out ok.

 

[arctic-stranger]

I was raised in pretty much a state of neglect...my parents did this weird thing of letting me do whatever i wanted to do. I think i wanted limits, but never got them.

so do you think that would make me dom or sub?

ten points for the right answer...!

 

[garylee]

arctic stranger

maybe since you and i both got to run around and do as we pleased....

maybe you are a dominant.....if you like to have your own way more than letting someone else have theirs.

if you like to bend more.......and compromise......maybe you are a sub.
but if you like your cake and to eat it too....

omg
maybe you are a switch........

there
i covered all bases.
did i win?
giggles

garylee

 

[littlegirlslut]

I am an only child. There was some turm oil when i was young, and throughout. I am very independent sometimes, but long for submission. My mother was the diciplinarian and my father and i are very close.

 

[Marquis]

I could write a novel on this topic, but I'll try to boil it down to the bare essentials.

I was born in a college dorm and raised by a very young and hip mother who was often more my friend than a parent. She married a hopefully dominant, but helplessly submissive Kenyan man and we spent my early years in some decent and some not so decent parts of NYC. Moved to East Africa and lived like a wealthy but traditional African family with my two sisters until my family was forced to flee the country because of an ugly corruption scandal. I went to highschool in suburban middle class America then got my degree from the most elite school in our nation's capital.

I often think my domliness comes from being raised in machismo, chauvinist cultures, but with a modern western education and philosophical background.

Like Netzach, I think the circumstances of my upbringing forged a Dom like you have never seen.

 

[rosco rathbone]

^^^^cool shit. Waiting for the novel.

Oldest son of oldest ne-er do well son, big brother. Feminist mom wore the actual pants, big baby dad wore the pants in his mind.

 

[redelicious]

I'm the eldest. I have a younger brother who has a mental disability (traumatic brain injury sustained at birth). My parents were really focused on him much of the time, so I learned to be independant.

My parents separated when I was 7ish and divorced not much later. They had joint custody of us, which meant we spent 6 months in a household except for alternate weekends. I know they did it so we would have more stability, but it felt like chaos at the time.

My dad is a control freak and stubborn. My mom is really touchy feely (she's a guidance councelor).

And I identify as submissive/bottom.

 

[Sodality]

Hmmmm



I am the middle child of 3 girls, we were all spoiled, and raised catholic conservative, well see now ya know the middle has to break out! I am also adopted, and well kinda the black sheep. I'm not a gap girl.....No Lands End here...Goth Naughty...Eccentric....

I dont say being adopted or the middle child makes me this way Im just outgoing and a free spirit...I have a ton of passion and sometimes need a direction to aim it.....

Happy days, leave it to beaver, Partridges, Brady bunch.....All happy families, all like mine.....

But Im a wild child I need excitement.

 

[arctic-stranger]

Re: Hmmmm

cut...

Happy days, leave it to beaver, Partridges, Brady bunch.....All happy families, all like mine.....

But Im a wild child I need excitement.

I think that would describe a LOT of people here....

I plead guilty

 

[Sodality]

Re: Re: Hmmmm

I think that would describe a LOT of people here....

I plead guilty

If it involves bein cuffed I'll plead guilty too!! YAY[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/I]