Sustainability of D/s relationships

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Recently several friends ended relationships with their Dominants. I was speaking to one such friend the other day about "long term" and how it specifically relates to D/s (or any variation/flavore thereof). We realized that there are only a select few (who we know) who have long term, (i would dare say lifetime) committments with each other. It seems like for the most part, D/s relationships seem to last one or two years at best, or maybe that is just my perception. Now, I am not saying there arent those who have long term committments with their Dominants, and I know a few who do. Does anyone have any experiences with that - in the affirmative, contrary, or something inbetween?

I hope no one jumps down my throat about this. Its just an observation that I have made, and something that I am curious about. There is a good chance that my perception is wrong about this. It just seems that there are considerably more breakups among the lifestyle people that I know, then those who are in vanilla relationships.

sidenote - i really hate the terms "vanilla" and "lifestyle"

*cross-post*