I was supposed to go to hypnotherapy that day and I was a little angry about it.
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“Frankly, I feel like a lot of what you’re asking me to do is drudge up bad memories I’ve forgotten about so that you can use them to manipulate me,†I said. “I think maybe I need a little time off. This is getting intense.â€
“You can’t take time off until you’re an expert with it, like any other skill. You’ll lose momentum.â€
“I don’t want to go today.â€
He lowered his newspaper to look at me.
“You don’t pay for it. This is an investment that I make in you. Go stand in the corner and ruminate on your ungrateful attitude.â€
Well, this is a new one, I thought to myself.
“I don’t want to go stand in the corner, either.â€
“Fine. Go kneel in the corner and stay there for a while. You may use a cushion.â€
“Collector, I’m not going to the corner! It’s humiliating!â€
“Of course it is. That is the point,†he said, from behind his paper.
“You are a fucking asshole,†I whispered (and, for the record, he often is, by any objective standard. Doms often are. What can I say? That’s just the way the cookie crumbles in my life).
That finally got his attention. The New York Times was lowered again.
“Are you sure?â€
“That’s the way you’re acting when I have a perfectly legitimate complaint, yes!†However, I was already starting to get nervous.
“I guess I need to prove it, then.†He folded the paper, put it down, and started to get up. “And I have not even finished my morning coffee.â€
Uh-oh, I thought, as he started to nonchalantly remove his belt. In the right circumstances I find this simple masculine gesture very arousing, but this was not the right circumstance.
“Go bend over the table or your bed and don’t struggle. It affects my aim.
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“Don’t hit me with that! I’m not ready!â€
“Fine, go get ready for your hypnotherapy appointment like a good girl and you can stand in the corner while I eat dinner tonight so I can enjoy the view. You are lucky I don’t do it now and get out the rice.â€
And that, my friends, is exactly the way it went down.