Active Dominance

I was thinking yesterday about active dominance. I've heard lots of people talk about the need to feel their master's dominance at least occasionally and it's often described as being achieved via rituals and such. It came to my mind yesterday b/c although we aren't much for protocols, rituals or much play for doses of dominance I'm always finding myself getting coffee, fetching socks, running upstairs for odds and ends, biting my tongue when a not so sweet reply is just teetering on it's tip. That's the kind of thing that makes up everyday life.

There was a time when I would describe him as laid back but I'm starting to reassess since while he doesn't often demand lots of pomp and circumstance I never go through a day without feeling his control. Maybe it's b/c he has no problems with interrupting my pastimes when he wants my attention without regard to the fact that I might be at a pivotal point in a story or listening to stand up or on the phone. If he wants my attention he demands it. I do feel pampered and indulged but with every casually flung order to go, do or call, it reinforces that those indulgences are indeed granted and maintained at his whim.