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What NOT to Share on Your Online Profile

By lunaKM on February 13, 2010

This video post is about what not to share on your online profile. We all have one somewhere. FetLife being all the rage right now, but also we have alt.com, collarme.com, bondage.com and others where we place ads and identity profiles up to get people interested. This interest can be friends or relationship related; it [...]

Posted in Safety, Video Posts | Tagged abuse, Alt.com, Bondage, Bondage.com, CollarMe, cons, danger, dangers, dating, depression, email, false sense of security, family, fetlife, friends, information, internet, online, Online dating, online profiles, profile safety, relationship, rt, safe, Safety, security, Service, share, share photos, sharing, support, tips | 3 Responses

SkylerPet’s Helpful Holiday Hints

SkylerPet’s Helpful Holiday Hints

By Guest Author on December 9, 2009

This post is another guest post by Skylerpet. You can read her other posts here. She’s wants to help us all get through the holidays with less stress. Here’s some tips to help you. If you have other tips for holiday stress, please leave them in the comments! With the holiday season in full swing, [...]

Posted in Service | Tagged 24/7, bath, book, chat, christmas, Christmas tips, clean, D/s, dates, disposable, email, family, family visits, guest post, hands, health, help, holiday, holiday hints, holiday stress, learned, lifestyle, pet play, play, rt, safe, Safety, share, skylerpet, stress, submissive, tips, wants | Leave a response

Chat Night Transcript for Speaking Submissively

Chat Night Transcript for Speaking Submissively

By lunaKM on December 8, 2009

This chat was held on December 2nd, 2009. ~lunaKM> So tonight I wanted to talk about speech and how the way we communicate can impact our submission. Nia> tonight’s topic really struck a chord with me angel> same here ~lunaKM> I’ve been doing a bit of non-scientific research of my own when I am out [...]

Posted in Views & More... | Tagged advice, chat, chat night, community, control, D/s, decisions, discussion, Dom, dominant, Dominant bashing, Domme, experience, family, fear, friends, gossip, grace, help, Impact, information, learned, natural, needs, online, opinion, play, questions, recovery, relationship, requests, risk, rt, safe, serving, sex, share, sharing, size, sorry, speaking submissively, speech, submission, submissive, suggestions, support, switch, switching, tall, transcript, trust, wants | 3 Responses

The Disposable Relationship Mentality

The Disposable Relationship Mentality

By lunaKM on October 26, 2009

I’ve been witness to a shocking new trend in relationships lately. Perhaps I’m old school or old fashioned but what I’m seeing in today’s society, and not just the BDSM culture, is the lack of effort in relationships. As I was raised I was taught that something worthwhile wasn’t always easy to achieve and you [...]

Posted in Relationships | Tagged advice, BDSM, begging, communication, cons, disposable, disposable relationship mentality, disposable relationships, experience, family, happiness, love, marriage, online, questions, recommendations, relationship, Relationships, ritual, rt, spirit, spiritual, standing, understanding | 5 Responses

Top Ten Books on Holiday Preparation

By lunaKM on October 7, 2009

With the holidays right around the corner I wanted to give you some helpful resources to get you started on decorating and planning for family; whether that be meals or traveling. The following list was gathered from Amazon.com Celebrating Home: Decorating for the Holidays and Seasons (Seasons of Cannon Falls) Country Living Merry & Bright: [...]

Posted in Domestics | Tagged amazon.com, book, books, christmas, danae, family, favorite, help, holiday, m/s, Resources, rt, seasonal preparation, Service, stress, submissive, thanksgiving, tips, top ten, traditions | Leave a response

The Challenges of Being Kajira in Today’s Society

The Challenges of Being Kajira in Today’s Society

By Guest Author on September 18, 2009

Today’s guest post is by dina from Kajiradreams. You can also read her post on what it’s like to be an owned kajira and a kajira’s strengths and misconceptions. There is so many stereotypes, misconceptions of what a kajira is; what gor is; what the gorean lifestyle is; what a bdsm lifestyler looks like; what [...]

Posted in Submission | Tagged abuse, Aria, BDSM, bdsm lifestyle, challenges, chat, choice, choices, Christian, clean, cons, dreams, dress, dynamic, family, friends, Gor, Gorean Lifestyle, guest post, kajira, lifestyle, lifestyler, norms, opinion, owned, preference, preferences, questions, relationship, rt, rules, sex, share, single, slave, speech, stereotype, submissive, wants | 8 Responses

Don’t Assume Submissive Means Sister

By lunaKM on September 9, 2009

You know you’ve entered online submissive ground when everyone you don’t know starts to refer to you as sister. It’s been years since I’ve ‘lived’ online but this is something that has always irked me. Recently on FetLife I saw a question that had an interesting twist to the whole sister submissive thing that I’d [...]

Posted in Online Submission | Tagged BDSM, blind faith, comfort, D/s, danger, Dom, dominant, dominants, experience, family, fantasy, fetlife, friends, Gor, grace, guest post, health, help, lifestyle, nurtured, online, Online Submission, opinion, perfect world, poly, preference, questions, real life, real world, relationship, Relationships, rt, Service, share, sister, sister sub, standing, submission, submissive, support, understanding, value | 9 Responses

Assualt is NOT okay

By lunaKM on September 5, 2009

This week’s video post is about an issue that needs more awareness. I had someone ask me for some advice through my email the other day and it went something like this: I just started exploring my kinky side and I’ve only shared it with a few other people. One person that found out started [...]

Posted in Safety, Video Posts | Tagged abuse, advice, ask me, assistance, assistance programs, BDSM, cons, consensual, danger, Dom, domestic violence awareness, domestic violence awareness month, domestic violence project, email, family, fear, help, kinky, kinky side, leather, national domestic violence awareness month, national leather association, needs, NLA-I DVP, relationship, Relationships, rt, safe, Service, share, submission, submissive, support, value | 5 Responses

Reader’s Response to Addictions

Reader’s Response to Addictions

By lunaKM on August 11, 2009

I got quite a few wonderful responses in my email about addictions after I posted about my own vice. Some of you have allowed me to share your thoughts here for everyone to read. Thank you so much for sharing your stories. I know that someone will be touched by them; I know I have. [...]

Posted in Health and Beauty | Tagged 24/7, addictions, cigarettes, clean, cons, control, Dom, email, encouraging words, everyday struggle, family, food addiction, guilt, health, help, journey, relationship, rt, Service, share, sharing, stress, submissive, suggestions, support, wants | 3 Responses

Living with Kids While in the D/s Lifestyle

Living with Kids While in the D/s Lifestyle

By Guest Author on August 4, 2009

This is a guest post by Christian. He  is a switch male of the D/s lifestyle for the past 14 years. For my first post here I am going to write about something I get asked a fair bit. How does one raise kids in a D/s household? As one with several kids I thought [...]

Posted in Relationships, Social Norms | Tagged activities, BDSM, bdsm play, Bondage, Christian, community, D/s, decisions, dress, email, family, female, guest post, help, history, implement, internet, lifestyle, opinion, play, rt, safe, Service, sex, shopping, spanking, stress, submission, submissive, switch, tasks, trust | Leave a response

Juggling Daily Life and Submission

Juggling Daily Life and Submission

By lunaKM on August 3, 2009

We all have responsibilities in life. The family needs to be taken care of and fed, you have to work, pay the bills and keep the home repaired. Kids have to be cared for and carted around from games to classes to other outings. There are days you feel that there aren’t enough hours in [...]

Posted in Submission | Tagged 24/7, balance, classes, D/s, daily living, development, Dom, dominant, family, fantasy, growth, growth and development, help, lifestyle, needs, play, real life, rt, serving, sex, submission, submissive | 1 Response

Personal Hiatus: Death in the Family

Personal Hiatus: Death in the Family

By lunaKM on July 4, 2009

Due to the death of my loving StepMother from Mesothelioma I will not be posting here until I return from her memorial and comforting my father. I am driving to Richmond, VA and expect to be gone around 10 days. May she rest in peace now that she is no longer in pain. Prayers, thoughts [...]

Posted in Webmaster Notes | Tagged book, comfort, contest, family, prayer, rt, submissive, winner | 12 Responses

Know Your Manners when Visiting D/s Friends

By lunaKM on June 11, 2009

Accepting an invitation to visit friends that are into BDSM or the lifestyle can lead to a wonderful experience and the development of close friends. That is if you keep yourself aware of house rules and relationship dynamics.  Generally speaking, a couple of D/s friends are not going to drop their dynamic around you since [...]

Posted in Social Norms | Tagged attitude, BDSM, choice, clothing, comfort, common sense, D/s, d/s exposure, development, Dom, dominant, dress, dynamic, dynamics, etiquette, experience, family, friends, friendships, help, information, lifestyle, manners, play, protocol, relationship, rt, rules, shift, social etiquette, submissive, tips | Leave a response

Accepting 24/7 D/s as Real

Accepting 24/7 D/s as Real

By lunaKM on June 9, 2009

Part of the typical criticism of D/s full-time is that it can’t be real. No one can live 24/7 D/s. I hear it a lot. These people say that life gets in the way and you can’t be Dominant and submissive all the time. The people that say they can’t lead a 24/7 life always [...]

Posted in Submission | Tagged 24/7, comparisons, competition, criticism, D/s, Dom, dominant, dress, family, focus, friends, full time submission, health, journey, lifestyle, natural, real life, relationship, Relationships, rt, submission, submissive, submissive hats, wants | 7 Responses

Can I Be Abused in a BDSM Relationship?

By lunaKM on June 2, 2009

This week’s video post is about BDSM vs. Abuse. A BDSM relationship, especially one with sadomasochistic moments, is subject to questions all the time about it’s proximity to abuse. It is not uncommon to have people unfamiliar with BDSM to say that what we do is abuse and violence; we see it all the time [...]

Posted in BDSM Basics, Safety, Video Posts | Tagged abuse, BDSM, bdsm lifestyle, BDSM vs Abuse, community, cons, consensual, contracts, control, danger, Dom, domestic violence project, Dominance, dominant, experience, family, health, healthy BDSM, journey, leather, lifestyle, m/s, masochist, national leather association, natural, negotiation, newsletter, partners, poly, punishment, punishments, questions, relationship, rt, scene, Service, sex, slave, stress, submissive, trust, value | Leave a response

Just Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Telling Your Family

By lunaKM on May 30, 2009

This post is from Norische. She allows anyone to post her articles anywhere they will do some good. I could not come up with a better way to say what she does in this article. Please enjoy and comment! I’d love to hear if you have told your family and how it went. “So what [...]

Posted in BDSM Basics | Tagged abuse, acceptance, activities, BDSM, bdsm lifestyle, choice, choices, Christian, clean, comfort, communication, community, cons, consensual, control, Dom, dress, email, family, fear, floggers, friends, harnesses, help, implement, information, kink acceptance, kinky, leather, lifestyle, love, myths, natural, negotiation, normal, obedience, openness, opinion, outting yourself, paddles, play, progress, relationship, religion, rt, rules, safe, sane, sex, sharing, single, sister, slave, slavery, standing, stress, submissive, tall, telling family, toy, toys, understanding, whips, writing | 4 Responses

Cyber Submission and Exploring D/s Online

Cyber Submission and Exploring D/s Online

By lunaKM on May 21, 2009

Today’s post comes from Skylerpet, a submissive pet in a D/s relationship with experience in online submission. Thank you Skylerpet! Online D/s is perhaps one of the most controversial subjects in the Dominance and submission community. The stance i will take on this subject, based on online D/s relationships of my own, is that yes; it [...]

Posted in Online Submission | Tagged 24/7, BDSM, bdsm play, blogs, Bondage, calendar, changing, chat, community, cons, control, cyber relationships, D/s, desires, Dom, Dominance, dominant, dress, dynamic, dynamics, email, emotions, essays, experience, family, favorite, friends, guest post, honesty, information, internet, internet tools, IRC, kinky, lifestyle, love, needs, online, online D/s, online dominance, Online Submission, online training, opinion, partners, pet play, play, predators, questions, real life, red flags, relationship, Relationships, rt, safe, Safety, security, sex, short, skylerpet, slave, stress, submission, submissive, tasks, titles, trust, twitter, wants, websites, writing | 2 Responses

Review: Different Loving

Review: Different Loving

By lunaKM on May 20, 2009

Today’s BDSM lifestyle practicioners thrive on real experiences to help them learn and grow within thier own personal choices. Many books written for the beginner are not so filled with real life stories as Different Loving. I chose to review this book here because I know I learned more about myself and what I wanted [...]

Posted in Reviews | Tagged activities, amazon.com, BDSM, bdsm books, bdsm lifestyle, beginning bdsm, body modification, book, books, choice, choices, D/s, Dom, Dominance, educational view, experience, family, fantasy, fetishism, focus, gender, Gloria Brahme, help, history, information, interview, jon jacobs, learned, lifestyle, personal choices, quotes, real life, recommended reading, relationship, review, rt, scene, sex, sexual curiosity, sexual dominance, share, submission, support, victorian roots, William Brahme | 2 Responses

Daddy/Little Girl Relationships: A Personal Look

Daddy/Little Girl Relationships: A Personal Look

By Guest Author on May 8, 2009

This is a guest post by ~melly. She’s in a Daddy/little girl dynamic and volunteered to write this post for Submissive Guide. i’ve slept with a teddy bear all my life. this may seem insignificant, but it’s really not,. i had my teddy bear with me when i moved in with Master. i held him [...]

Posted in Relationships | Tagged BDSM, clean, cleaning, comfort, communication, connection, D/g, daddy, dress, dynamic, family, fear, fetlife, guest post, learning, little girl, love, melly, natural, play, relationship, Relationships, rt, sadness, scene, shift, single, slave, stress, submissive, tall, trust | 4 Responses

Standing at Attention [Day 2 - 2WBSP]

Standing at Attention [Day 2 - 2WBSP]

By lunaKM on April 22, 2009

Today’s challenge  in the two week project here at Submissive Guide is all about standing at attention. One of the most common ways you can present yourself as submissive to a Dominant is by the way you stand. You may do it now even though you don’t have any specific rules as to how to [...]

Posted in Submissive Positions | Tagged 2WBSP, Dom, dominant, family, favorite, friends, hands, positions, rt, rules, slave positions, stand at attention, standing, submissive, Submissive Positions | Leave a response

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