Thursday Question #18: Social Etiquette

Every week there will be a BDSM question posed to readers here at luna’s Journey. Feel free to answer it as candidly as you’d like. If you’d like to participate in the discussion please leave a comment on this post, send me an email or post the response on your own blog!
How polite are you? Where did you learn your social etiquette? What rules do you have in your relationship regarding p’s and q’s?


















I’m not quite “practically perfect in every way,” but my grandmother tried. Grandma is a walking talking cliche. She’s a typical Jewish granny, with the perfect house, formal multi-course meals, and rigorous behavioral expectations. Between her training (like a huge diamond ring in the spine if my posture was lacking) and an adolecence full of Victorian novels and fairy princesses, I have a hearty sence of etiquette and truly enjoy the trappings oif formal hospitality.
Unfortunately, my husband had a very different upbringing. He wasn’t exactly raised in a barn, but he was raised way out in the country by a farmer, a high school dropout, and a roughneck. He finds etiquette to be an uncalled for extra effort and silly to boot. We get into it over him being impolite and inconsiderate and over my heightened expectations. It isn’t so formal as a rule, but the only way to avoid unresolvable conflict is for me to ignore it when he fails to comprehend “manners.”