Beginner's Luck

Kuran208

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Since the Literotica BDSM board is becoming my mentor.... :p

My girlfriend and I are both highly interested in D/s, both in bed and out. We are also, due to constraints at the moment, long distance for now, though that is likely to change soon.

Neither of us have done much before with D/s, though we've both been reading up and such. We are, to make a long story short, reaching a point where we can start figuring out what we like and don't like, which leaves me as the Dominant one with a bit of a quandary.

Long distance makes certain things challenging where they wouldn't be when we are close together, and to be perfectly honest, i'm not too sure where would be a good place to start. In the bedroom, we've got a lot of things covered...bondage, and so on...we've even done a little bit of orgasm control late at night when we're both alone with each other.

Out of the bedroom is where it gets challenging. I've considered and am pondering talking to her about something which i've seen come up quite a bit in guides and such, which is having her make a picture each morning and sending it to me, on her knees or something similar, and I can get the idea behind it. Before I do that however...i'm wondering what the fine folks here at Lit might be able to suggest as a first step into out-of-bedroom dominance?

On a similar note....she's a bit of a brat. And while when she needs it i'd more than willingly bend her over my knee...not as effective from half a country away. Are there any...how to put this...what kind of punishments might one suggest that the sub could carry out on her own? Searching guides and the like hasn't yielded a whole lot of results for this.
 
Are you okay with her being a brat? Or are you looking for ways to curb that behavior?
 
Are you okay with her being a brat? Or are you looking for ways to curb that behavior?

Ahh, I should have made that clearer.

I'm perfectly fine with it. A lot of it is playful, and aside from it being a very attractive quality, it's part of her personality. I'm not looking to change who she is, if that makes sense. No full mind control or anything of that level. For us...I think it's almost her challenging me to do something about it when she acts up.
 
Keep a tally of every instance of bratting she's done for the day/week and have no qualms about reminding her. Reducing a habit of hers that she gets a thrill from down to nothing but a number might take the wind out of her sails.

You could also have her take pictures of herself with a bar of soap in her mouth for every grave offense.

Or react in a way that you find fun but she doesn't. Like I love/hate it when I'm acting smarmy over IM and S just replies to all my smarm with the same emote until I admit defeat. Half the fun of bratting is getting a reaction and being retaliated against, so if you can react in a way that asserts your control in a completely non-confrontational way, she might find that to be pretty deliciously frustrating.
 
Okay, so, as a follow on to my original post...

Last night and this morning she's been a real brat. Not quite to the point of an actual argument between us, but getting up there, things like trying to get me to go to bed last night (different time zones, we stay up late with each other usually) and hopping offline before bed without saying a word, leaving me hanging...which neither of us like having done. She works different hours than I do, so I wake her up with a phone call at 6pm to get her up and ready...

I'm considering being a bit harsher than I usually am...more dominant, in theory."Get up." Instead of "good morning" and making it clear that today, minus when she's busy working, she's mine.

Now, i'm still struggling with the nice guy part of me. So while this sounds in theory like a good idea for reasserting a bit of dominance, and while I know that what works is subjective for everyone...I'm wondering if this is a good idea at all. On the other hand, she's been more challenging the past few days since I started working on what was mentioned in above posts, so part of me wonders if she's challenging me to actually go the next step....

Part rant, part hoping for a bit of advice...as always, you fine folks at Lit are becoming my mentors in a twisted way ;)
 
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Totally projecting here, but she might be ramping it up because she sees you trying to take more control and she's scared to actually relinquish it?

I can tell the difference between my bratting and actual knee-jerk fighting back, though I keep it to myself because he's not quite experienced enough to have any ideas on how to deal with it in a D/s-y way. I can't always catch or help myself, but it's important that I'm at least able to pretty easily make that distinction and try to work on it on my own until I feel like we're further along in our explorations.
 
It's possible. The thing that makes me cautious of thinking along those lines is that she flat out said that she was sub, and she has a lot of submissive personality quirks. She feels like a sub, she maintains. And the few little things i've tried, she's responded well to.
 
It's possible. The thing that makes me cautious of thinking along those lines is that she flat out said that she was sub, and she has a lot of submissive personality quirks. She feels like a sub, she maintains. And the few little things i've tried, she's responded well to.

Same. But saying "I'm a sub" is pretty much a whole different animal than being one, especially in situations that you hadn't completely thought through beforehand. There are a lot of s-types here who struggle with wanting to resist and do their own thing sometimes, even if they consciously want to submit; it doesn't automatically come easily or naturally. Giving up that control when you don't want to (which, some might argue, is something that separates real D/s from playtime BDSM) is hard for most, I wager.
 
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