Navigating Stress Before It Happens in D/s Relationships

by Kayla Lords · Published September 22, 2023 · Updated September 21, 2023

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This week’s episode is brought to you by our own personal stressors and more inspiration from Therapy Jeff! We’ve mentioned in the past that – when you can – it can be helpful to discuss how you might handle stressful things before they happen. In this episode, we go through several scenarios — kinky and non-kinky — to model what that conversation might look like.

In this episode

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This episode was inspired by Therapy Jeff and a Reel he made talking about 11 stressful situations to talk about and figure out before they occur.
We’re taking a few of those suggestions and adding in a few D/s specific ones, too.
This is how we handle those situations. You may have a completely different approach and that’s okay. We’re only trying to model the conversation and potential solution for you.
Stressful situations
- Around family member(s) who upset, stress, or trigger you
- Feeling overwhelmed by job or professional obligations
- In pain, sick, or feeling bad (physically or mentally)
- Everything that can go wrong does go wrong
- Aftermath of an argument when you’re both feeling sensitive
- Dom makes decision that sub disagrees with
- Kink scene goes wrong
- You disagree on whether a stressful/big moment is appropriate for your power exchange