Like you, I don't have a ton of personal experience -- I have what you might call observational, and I've done a lot of reading, so I'm glad I can really work accuracy into it. Most of the submissives I know are people who in their external lives are under a lot of pressure to perform or very dominant, confident people; Neal on the show walks that lovely line between that and his near-total obedience of Peter.

LOL GIVE NEAL A HOOP.