The healthy submissive

I came across this many moons ago, I am sorry I don't remember who wrote it so I can't give them credit, however, I think there is a lot of truth in it, so I have posted it here.

The healthy submissive is capable of, and thrives on, intense, intimate, emotionally open relationships. This is often evident in the number of nourishing, sustaining, and life affirming friendships they makes over the years.
The healthy submissive is a giver. They often needs help to ration themselves because their impulses nearly always lead them to want to do good for others.
The healthy submissive is capable of intense joy, especially in the context of a sustaining relationship.
The healthy submissive finds significant relaxation when properly related. They are at ease in that place.
The healthy submissive has finely tuned interpersonal sensitivity. They are reactive to subtle shifts in the emotional tone of others.
The healthy submissive has a fluidity of self, a flexibility that enables them to adapt to changing circumstances.
The healthy submissive is playful.
The healthy submissive has no more than the usual cultural conflicts about their body, and its goodness and beauty.
The healthy submissive takes pride in their accomplishments.
The healthy submissive accepts themselves as they are, knowing that while their culture values independence and self sufficiency, they have strong dependency needs and that there is no inherent "wrongness" about those needs.
The healthy submissive seeks nourishing relationships.
The healthy submissive, in accepting themselves "as is" and is tolerant of others. But neither will they allow anyone to tell them what their truth should be.
The healthy submissive has a reasonable self concept, aware of their difficulties as well as their strengths.
The healthy submissive hungers to be the object of an intense and penetrating understanding. When their nature is understood and they are held in a loving and firm frame, their devotion is almost limitless.
The healthy submissive has an enormous capacity for devotion, from which springs their service.