Alpha

First off, I hate insurance companies.Okay, never mind I just deleted a long rant on this. Suffice it to say I am so pissed it's giving me a throbbing headache. I am so freaking tired of people not doing their job and then lying.

I Won't Rant. I can control myself!

Let's talk about Alpha Heroes instead. Over at Romancing the Blog, Karen Templeton writes about Alphas. She has an interesting blog and I agree with her in that it's fun to fall in love with a guy who sort of appears to be a jerk in the beginning.

But I look at Alpha guys a different way. They aren't really jerks, it's just the heroine that may be seeing them that way. It's all a matter of perspective.

Here's what I love about Alpha guys. They are very secure in themselves as far as their manhood goes. They don't need to bully those weaker than them UNLESS the weaker person asks for it. For instance, if a jerkoff is harassing a woman, Alpha Guy will use his strength to scare the crap out of that jerkoff.

Last night hubby and I were watching 24. Jack Bauer is doing Alpha Guy shit to save the world, threatening the family of a terrorist. I am having a major cow about this, reacting as a woman.

Hubby reacts like an alpha male--doing what it takes to get the job done.

Hubby doesn't particularly like my opinion, BUT, and this is important, he never ever tries to stop me from having an opinion. He's alpha, he has a strong set of beliefs and lives with his choices, but he doesn't try to force his opinions on me.

Alpha does not equal jerk.

People have asked me how hubby and I get along so well when we are two such strong personalities. Respect and compromise. Women and their Alpha men learn that.

Now, in a romance novel, what gets things hot is when you take an Alpha guy and a opinionated strong woman and put them on opposite sides of a goal, then throw in some serious lust, and you will see sparks. The woman may view alpha guy as a jerk because he's thwarting her goal. Same with the guy. The fun is watching them deal with their attraction, and learning the respect and compromise that go with love.

Thinking about Alpha guys and books is much more fun that dealing with the #*&*# insurance people.

So do you like your men Alpha? Do you hate insurance companies?