Before any FLR can actually be implemented, an inviolate set of rules and boundaries must be established. Those rules must establish the strict adherence to boundaries. Rules maintain the power exchange and the separation of powers. Boundaries protect the participants and are necessary to make an FLR practical, and feasible, in the real world. Although your relationship with each other is changing, your personal, professional, and social relationships must be maintained in a traditional manner. Never compromise the Submissive’s professional, personal, or family relationships.
I also have very strong opinions on scenarios of public humiliation. Never involve strangers in public acts of submission, and never ever engage in any sensual practice in a location accessible to minor children. Hotel maids and dress store clerks, must put up with enough abuse without being unwitting parties to sex play. I must confess to occasionally teasing Amy in front of a waitress at dinner or in a nightclub, but only if it is a situation in which I know the person involved and I know that they will be amused rather than embarrassed. Opinions vary on this subject and I know that many “Mistresses” feel that they have the right to train or abuse their submissive in any public setting, but I think that most skilled and experienced Dominas avoid compromising unsuspecting members of the public in their scenarios. At the risk of being repetitive, our focus here is lifestyle training, not role-play scenarios, and any lifestyle, if it is to succeed must have a sense of practicality to it.
Also, remember that our primary goal here in the initial stage of this lifestyle is learning to live, think, and feel in a totally new way. This is about teaching and learning. Punishments, including humiliation, may be necessary in the reformatting process, but punishment is a tool, not an end-goal. Occasional humiliation of the Submissive may amuse us, it will most certainly offend anyone outside the Dom/Sub relationship.
My Amy is required to always be well groomed and be perfumed. However, I would never embarrass her in a work situation. Although I generally do not share my clothing and cosmetics with her, when visiting her family or mine, I allow her to spritz lightly with my perfume instead of hers, that way if her mother or sisters notice the fragrance, they will attribute the smell to contact with me. Occasionally, my sister will comment after a greeting hug, “Don’t you smell nice?”, which inevitably causes Amy to blush as I unsuccessfully suppress a wicked conspiratorial smile. She must always be feminized to some degree, panties are not negotiable, but I would never make her wear a brassiere to a family dinner or otherwise embarrass her family in any way.
In generic public settings, away from work, friends, or family, Amy is expected to always be at least metaphorically, if not actually, a half step behind me, and to speak when spoken too. When we are in the shops, I make all of the choices. When dining out, I order for both of us. I make no deliberate efforts to humiliate her, but the servers and clerks in the shops and restaurants that we frequent have learned to address me, and only me, with any questions and transactions. They are all polite to her, I won’t tolerate rudeness, but there is an aura of invisibility surrounding her in adult conversations. In the restaurants and shops that we frequent, many people assume that she is my personal assistant rather than my spouse.