Quote Originally Posted by Nightstriker
Without love there really is no base for you to be able to build a relationship on. There needs to be trust, both sides need to trust eachother. And there needs to be loyalty.

From what I can see most of the activities, tasks and in one way or another test these factors, on both sides.
Agreed, Nightstriker, and it is exactly this that confuses me whenever I hear of some of the tasks given in Submissive Tasks. I have very little knowledge of this because I am not a member of that part of the forums and I would be very happy to be enlightened, but I just can't get my head round how trust, loyalty and particularly love, can be involved when tasks are seemingly given out at random.

For my part I know that I couldn't do half the things I do with lucy unless I trusted, respected and, above all, loved her. But then I suppose that is the difference between having a BDSM relationship and just playing at Ds by giving/receiving tasks when both parties know virtually nothing about each other.