Petespankboy:
Guy, thanks for the wise words. I often say to people to concentrate on the positives rather than the negatives, but can sometimes be difficult to adhere to your own advice. I have thought about writing some spanking stories but that is as far as it has gone. Interesting in that there has been so little response to this, I thought there would be much more !
Well, none of us know your wife or any details of your marital relationship (nor am I asking for any here), so giving meaningful advice strikes me as pretty much impossible--except maybe in a very generalized manner.
Asking for a full-fledged FLDD ("female-led domestic discipline") relationship is quite different from asking your partner to simply spank you fairly soundly on occasion--perhaps you could convince her that accommodating you mildly like that wouldn't actually be "changing herself," it would merely be doing something important to him for the man she loves. Marriage does involve those types of accommodations, both non-sexual and sexual (vanilla and/or kinky), after all--possibly you could point out areas in which you've accommodated her desires, without changing who you are.
All of those internet accounts regarding wives/girlfriends who seemingly had no interest in (or even previous knowledge of, in some cases) spousal spanking, who then evolve quickly into dominating, no-nonsense, butt-blistering disciplinarians, I don't accept all of them at face value--many of them are fantasies, I'm figuring...

--C.K.