Hi friends! Apologies for the lack of a letter on Thursday, the day these usually go out. I was frantically packing 3 suitcases (!) for my return to Toronto after 6 months of staying in New York with my spouse.
I hope to get back to more substantive writing here soon, but for this week I thought I would share an example of an actual writing assignment that my spouse/dominant tasked me with this week. It’s not that I think it’s a particularly great piece of writing or anything – it’s not – but I do think it’s potentially instructive for other kinky couples, especially long-distance ones.
The assignment was as follows: “Pick 5-7 things (media, sex things, date ideas) you think we should do together over the phone once we’re apart and write up to 100 words about each of them.” The implication – not spoken or written, but known to both of us, I think – was that this task was assigned to me as a way of bridging the gap between being physically together and being far apart again. It’s always a difficult transition period, made all the more so in some ways when our time together was long enough that it felt like we were actually living together (and we essentially were).
Below is what I wrote; I hope this perhaps inspires you to think about difficulties you face in your relationship and the kinky-yet-intimate writing assignments that could potentially ease them in some way, if you’re inclined toward that kind of thing.