In living this lifestyle I have learned first hand, how many women are scared off from it after reading some of the websites devoted to it. I know that my wife was and told me that she did not want a husband who was a wimpy slave. She wanted the strong and protective husband she married and loved and wanted to still make the important decision jointly. She took over some areas that I was having problems with and that worked out real well. Heck, she got us out of credit card debt by controlling my obsessive spending.Tom Allen wrote:Posts like this make me wish we had "upvote" or "like" buttons.
My wife's major fear, and it was a big fear, was that I was dumping the decision making process on her and that she would make bad mistakes, not being as knowledgeable in certain areas as I was. I explained that we are not going to live like she read about online where the wife makes all decisions and orders her husband around. I told that we still will express our own opinions and like before, try to come to a joint decision but if we could not reach a consensus, she had final say. That still frightened her but I explained that no matter what her role in our relationship was, I would never let her make a decision that would damage our relationship or lives. I gave the example of not allowing her to make a left turn, no matter how certain she was that it was the correct direction to drive in, if I knew we would go over a cliff just because she had final say. That made her feel a lot better. Some FLR websites seem more like masturbation fodder and efforts to sell books to men in the hope that they will give it to their wife to read to turn them into Dominatrices.

I must say that it has improved our lives. Sure, if you are sexually submissive there is an erotic element in a FLR but it is not the reason for it. Our sex life is not influenced by our FLR. We continue to do what we always did. Nothing in that area has changed. If my wife wants to be the submissive one some nights, that is what she is.