I feel like in every relationship, man or woman, you should get exactly one free slap. Just like, they took something WAY too far, SLAP, how fuckin dare you, total wakeup call. But you better save that shit for when it REALLY counts, because you don’t get another one. No matter what. Two slaps, then it becomes a pattern, then it becomes hey this is how I solve my problems and spirals into abuse. But just one? That is like the strongest possible conversational punctuation in existence when given by an otherwise nonviolent person. And if it was warranted, it will really make him or her think about what they said/did to you and maybe even genuinely change in a way they wouldn’t have otherwise.