Updated from Nov 15, 2016
The joy of the master-queen dynamic-king
by Melanie
(Abridged by henrymakow.com)
Since my husband became head of our home and our relationship, he just can't do enough to make me happy. I'm still trying to figure out exactly why this dynamic works the way it does. Before I became submissive, I was sure he didn't care about my feelings. He would create problems for me by leaving important things undone. It just didn't seem like he cared enough to make the effort. He didn't want to be reminded of his responsibilities or asked to do anything more.
How could a man really care about me and yet care so little about making me happy? Yet I knew he loved me. I knew he wanted me to be happy. He often said so, and he often expressed his love very convincingly in words and lovemaking. So why not in particular, important actions? This was so puzzling and frustrating to me.
A piece of the puzzle fell into place when I realized how important self-determination is to him. He has to do things because he wants to. He has to take on responsibilities and obligations freely; once he's taken them on, he'll just about kill himself to meet them.
But if he feels the responsibility or obligation foisted on him from without, he just won't accept it. He just won't do it, even if it's something "everyone does" or "a good husband does".
If he hasn't chosen it, you can just forget it. I could beat my head against a wall until I went unconscious trying to get him to do things that I thought he should do because everyone else's husband does that, or because it's only fair, or whatever.
When he became the head of the household and of our relationship, there was a shift in the way he viewed himself, and me, and our home, and our life. He seems to have a heightened sense of ownership, a heightened sense of being the man of the house, and a sudden willingness to do things. Suddenly he wants to help me with the dishes and make the bed! He seems to feel that everything is more "his" than it was before: me, the house, the money. And it is indeed more his, in the sense that he has more control over all those things.
Ownership is basically having control over. Although we use the word "mine" to describe things that are merely connected with us, real possession implies control. I believe the sense of ownership ties us (his home and family) to his self-determination somehow. We are not so much things outside himself, demanding onerous duties; we are part of him, and doing things for us is more like doing things for himself. Furthermore, being in command means he makes decisions and carries them out. He does things because he decides they should be done, not because I told him about them or reminded him of them.
What does it mean to own another human being? Obviously, slavery springs to mind as an ugly institution that has fortunately been mostly stamped out. To own a person as if the person were an object, having total control over their destiny and no regard for their feelings, is obviously not good. But when a person desires to be possessed by another, this can be wonderful...
A man sees himself reflected in the eyes of his woman. She can make him look small, incompetent, and weak. Or she can make him look strong, heroic, larger than life, a good man and true. And seeing himself so, he can be all that. In this way, her submission and trust make him a hero. A hero who holds her happiness and well-being in his hands. He will cherish that happiness and well-being above everything--above his own, perhaps--because that hero in her eyes is worth more to him than money, status, or his own comfort. This is the dynamic of the master and his queen. He cannot do enough for her because of the way she sees him.
I didn't see myself as a controlling woman, but I suppose I was. It's not a bad thing to be; it all depends on the circumstances. Sometimes a woman's survival depends on it. But when a woman would be happier if she had less control and she still won't give it up, I think it's because she was wounded at some point. Perhaps she was orphaned in childhood, or abused, or abandoned by her parents. Perhaps she was hurt in adolescence by selfish, uncaring men. Whatever happened, something convinced her that she was on her own, that if she didn't take care of herself, no one would. She is, you might say, a woman warrior in a hostile world.
When a woman like this submits to a man and gives him control of her life, is this not a truly awesome gift? She is telling him that he inspires enough trust to overcome all her doubts. Is this not a much greater gift than the submission of an untroubled girl who has been cherished all her life?
I realize now that when I was in control, the image I reflected back to my husband was the image of someone not entirely necessary, not entirely competent, not worthy of my trust and confidence. And he lived like that person. Now we are both transformed.
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First Comment from Ken Adachi
The quote attributed to Ruth Ginsberg in the photo is typical of the falsified pretense (or false dichotomy) upon which her 'revolutionary' dictum is based. Those who wish to manipulate historical perception to their liking, often use this ploy to inculcate the Unthinking.
We don't know the context of the quote, so we can only judge her words, but her words say enough. She implies that the "tradition" of civil law marriage (the state, the courts and their blacked-robed appointees) has supplanted the previous "tradition" of common law marriage. But the tradition of marriage has never been a 'common law' tradition. That's absurd. Marriage has always been - down through the ages - a solemn ritual, officiated by a priest of some sort, where vows are exchanged and promises are made that are binding upon both before God.
Of course, you're expected to view this 'tradition' movement as a forward projection, from the barbaric (common law), to the more 'civilized', modern tradition where the state and their blacked-robed representatives have bequeathed to themselves the power to decree who is married and who is not, rather than the Church and God, where the authority rightfully - and traditionally - has resided.
Feminists, like Ginsburg, are responsible for the wholesale destruction of the sanctity of marriage in America as a solemn binding between a man, a woman and God with the imposition of 'no fault divorce' in the United States in 1975. This vile 'law' permits anyone to simply throw away their spouse, like so much garbage, if they are dissatisfied with him or her, for any reason whatsoever. People like Ginsburg are a pox on humanity and the very architects of societal destruction and familial dissolution.
Jennifer wrote-
"She can make him look small, incompetent, and weak. Or she can make him look strong, heroic, larger than life, a good man and true. And seeing himself so, he can be all that. In this way, her submission and trust make him a hero."
I disagree with Melanie's magical ideas that a woman's play-acting and envisioning can make her man into a hero. Suzanne's comments hit the truth. A man's sense of who he is, his responsibilities are very weak and pathetic, if they are based on a woman's opinion of him and not on a higher spiritual source from God. No matter how much a woman treats her man like a "hero" if he has a double life as a Mason, homosexual, womanizer, pedophile --nothing she can do or say will make this loser into a hero and it will only be a matter of time before their lies come to the surface --but sadly for many traditional wives-it can be years before they realize their life was robbed by these rotten men.
Tony B said (December 3, 2019):
The FACT of civilization is that women have been designed as helpmates - followers; encouragers; backers - not as leaders, for which they simply are not equipped. A satanic attempt to make over women into imitation men has already sickened both sexes throughout the whole world. Ask any truly mature woman if she would rather have a man or a woman in control of her life. Yet many "modern" women will automatically vote for a woman president, never believing for a second that her vote is being manipulated.