My girlfriend and I quickly went in an interesting direction with our relationship. She wore the pants, and I didn't. This wasn't something which took much initial evolution, we met through a mutual friend who thought we would be perfect for each other. On our very first date, she said to me, "Some of my friends would say that I'm an acquired taste, but I would argue, that if you can't take me the way I am, then in the long term you are not going to work out." I asked what she meant by that and she said, "I like having a man around. It does feel right. But everyone says that a good relationship is all about meeting in the middle, compromise, and communication." She then flagged the waiter over and said, "Here is an example." She ordered dinner for both of us. She smiled and said, "I don't compromise. To be honest, I like not compromising. I usually don't even know I'm doing it, but when I am it is deliberate. I want what I want and what I don't want I don't put up with."
I told her, "Look, I'm always feeling like I'm dancing around. I've gone on dates where we negotiate some place we both like and then 5 minutes into the movie, park, sporting event or whatever she tells me she doesn't like it but then won't leave for whatever reasons. I hate that."
She smiled at me and said, "I can guarantee that won't happen with me."
For the next few months, our relationship was pretty much exactly this. When she decided I was moving in, I moved in. She went through my place and picked the few things she liked and told me to get rid of the rest." Her place was nicer and her stuff was nicer so this made sense.
While she definitely had been open from the first about how commanding she would be, there was a definite progression happening where she did things like hand me a list of chores and when they were to be done. I liked things clean so none of this was unreasonable. While some people might be unhappy with there being an unfairness to my doing all chores, she had been upfront about it being her way or the highway, so I was happy because it wasn't something unexpected.
My life was fairly simple around her. We had sex which matched her personality. Very much her on top, her show. It happened when and where she wanted. I didn't mind this even a tiny bit. I didn't have to read her moods and there was no undercurrent about my not being romantic. The few times I did go out of my way to be romantic she said, "If I want something I'll take it or buy it." as she threw my flowers in the garbage. Some people might see this as being mean but in her case, it was her wonderful clarity which made me quite happy with this situation.
My life was quite simple in that we were both into exercise so we did this together we both ran, did yoga, and worked out. Our travel was generally limited to nearby places to do one of these exercise things. Both of our ideal "Nights out" was sitting with a book, fucking, or my giving her a long massage. Distance travel wasn't a thing for either of us as we both had extreme travel childhoods as a common background. Neither of us could be certain of how many countries we had both been to before age 10.
I was just cleaning up dinner when she surprised me with a question instead of a command. "Would you mind giving up your finances to me?" I was more startled by it being a question than the question itself and I said as much, "I'm more curious as to why you have to ask?" She got a bit of a faraway look and said, "It's not the money. I've got piles. And, both of us earn more than we need. But well..." She got a faraway look and said, "Well.. It's about control."
I said, "Done. I trust you." There was definitely an emotional sexual aspect because less than 5 minutes later she was riding me hard and when she was extra exuberant she would strangle me with her hands. Normally, this was just enough pressure to make it extra clear as to who was on top, but tonight I was starting to see my vision darken. I put my hands on her wrists but she knocked them away. I just let myself go and I'm fairly certain I came harder than night than ever before. The only way to describe what she was doing was hate-fucking me. Even more, that night she would wake me up jerking me to hardness and ride me some more. On and off it was maybe 6 separate hard fucks.
In the morning I looked at my neck in the mirror and I could count the individual fingers and her thumbs in the bruising on my throat. Both of us could choose to work from home as much as we wanted and today was certainly one of those days. I transferred my bank balance over to her and had my work change the deposit details to her. Of course, she made no mention of how I would get money and I didn't ask.
A month later we were watching a movie when I just asked, "You get off on my not having any money." She looked at me for a bit and said, "Quite a bit." She then looked concerned which wasn't something she did often and I jumped in, "I'm not wanting to change it back. I just was curious."
She seemed quite happy with this and she started stroking me but wasn't going any further. This was a very common situation with her conversations; not just ones where she clearly had an agenda, but sometimes she would just be asking me about work, or even discussing a book we had read. She said, "I've generally been honest with you. But I have actually restrained my controlling side. No boyfriend has even come close to putting up with me to this point." I was breathless but could still sense this was important when I said, "I love your control. I love it so much that I feel guilty. I wonder if you ever want me to push back, to be the man, to be your equal." She stopped stroking me and said, "I would hate if you did those things." She then resumed stroking I said, "How have you been restraining yourself? The money thing?" She said, "I don't know what my limit is for control." I said, "You've got my money, you've got my income. And you've got my heart. I'm not sure what more there could be?"
She said, "Let's say you've had enough. You could walk out that door right now. Go stay at a friend's. Get your work to deposit your money back in your account and you will be back on your own two feet in a month or less."