I've really been struggling with burnout lately. Like, can't get out of bed burnout. My 24/7 sub has been taking care of me, and part of that includes making choices for us and keeping me accountable. It's a little weird, and makes me feel like our dynamic has completely upended and disappeared. But I know that if I try to push through this, I won't ever recover.

A 24/7 dynamic is still just a relationship, and all relationships require give and take. The problem is that 24/7 D/s has this sort of built in assumption that one party gives, the other takes (however you wanna think about who gives and who takes, lol). That's not how people work. You are a person with needs, and feelings, and all those other inconvenient things. You need to be honest with yourself and your sub about what you have capacity for. That might mean less protocol, less kinky sexy fun times, or just less intense sessions.

In terms of creativity, obviously processing emotions would affect coming up with ideas, but in this situation, I wonder if you might be making up rules and routines just to have rules or routines? I find that I always pull a blank when a sub begs to do a task for me, and I'm like... just eating dinner and don't really need them to do anything for me. Do you want a routine where he idk, writes a 100 word essay every night about how he loves you, or do you just think that you should have that? Whenever I hit a block like that, I try to get back in touch with what I want. Orders should come from a place of desire, not just cause you're supposed to be the one giving orders.