Rachel, I have a book recommendation for you if that’s okay. Actually a ton of book recommendations, but let’s start with one. “Unequal Partnership”, by Sky. That’s mostly about “how do I find that kinky partner”.
Stuff by Raven and Joshua is also excellent. Not sure where to start there, they’re kinda prolific. Probably “Building the team”, “Real Service” and “Ask Raven and Joshua”.
Honestly, if I had to look again, I’d do two (Er, four?) things:
- Ask my current kink friends to match make for me. They know how I function and have a wider network, so they could recommend people to talk to
- Keep going to MasT meetings
- Probably start going to munches and maybe some play parties, see first point
- Possibly the smaller rope conferences; the big events aren’t my speed
One mindset shift that Joshua (Raven’s slave) really is keen on, that I think makes a lot of sense, is: What are you bringing to the relationship? Outside of kink, that is. What skills can you offer? How are you on your journey of self discovery? Got a social circle, friends? Interests? Hobbies?
I know that I look for a complete person on the D side of the slash - why shouldn’t a D-type look for the same in an s-type. Makes sense to me at least
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