The Anatomy of a Maintenance Spanking
The Anatomy of a Maintenance Spanking There's a difference between a spanking given for something I did and a spanking given for nothing in particular — and after twenty years of this life, I still find that difference is where most people get confused when they first hear about maintenance discipline. So I want to walk through what one actually looks like, from the inside, both physically and emotionally. What "Maintenance" Even Means A maintenance spanking isn't a punishment . There's no infraction being addressed, no specific failure being corrected. It's scheduled, or semi-scheduled, and its purpose is preventative — it exists to keep the dynamic itself in good repair, the way you'd service a car before it breaks down rather than after. In our marriage, maintenance has always served a different function than corrective discipline. Corrective spankings are about accountability for something specific. Maintenance is about the relationship's shape ...