For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like her body was trying to become diaphanous. Instead of getting harder and stronger...

Does ‘submissive’ mean ‘baby’ in your language, Master Mason? Because I’ll have you know —-….”No, but Dominant does mean lover, caretaker, disciplinarian, and whatever else the situation warrants.

Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience consciously. This problem has been around since the beginning of time,...