Originally Posted by
YesNo
It puzzles me also. You would think men would have better things to do.
I suspect actually having someone's husband scare the alpha male wannabe enough so that he would go into hiding by living with his parents, as Emil Miller recounts, may not be how he hoped the male-over-male dominance would have worked out. In that case, I would have to think the husband reasserted his dominance and became the alpha male.
But this makes me realize that it is the other men, whether husband, boyfriend or even male acquaintances of the woman, who are most important in the alpha male's perspective. The woman is only secondary, though enjoyable, entertainment. She is like the tree the dog pisses on to mark his territory for the other dogs. It is the others dogs, not the tree, that matters to the alpha male wannabe.