The Ironwood Collection of Alpha Moves (13 page)

When you’re playing the Trophy Husband your goal is to impress everyone your wife works for or with with what an outstanding catch you are.  That means never saying anything that might embarrass her, anything that might come back to haunt her later, or anything that sounds even the slightest bit douchey. 

Males should be greeted with a handshake and an elbow-grab in one motion, after you have made a point of stepping
around
your woman (if you are standing behind her on her left, your right hand will have to come out to shake) which makes you seem larger and more imposing. 

Always identify yourself and your relation to your wife, and then answer any follow-up questions.  Then fade back behind her, maintaining a quietly possessive manner, until you are needed again.
 
Lingering over her left shoulder
gives you a more possessive, dominant
position.

Periodically you should take breaks, say to get her food and drink (a DHV to all the other women in the room) and mingle a moment.  Introduce yourself to any and all high-status females in the room, even the ones who might be your wife’s work enemy.  Nothing makes a wife feel more gratified about her job than rubbing her successful, handsome husband in her work rival’s face.

Be polite to everyone, respectful to her subordinates (treat them like you would a little sister) and flirt
lightly
(!) with any of her strong female allies. 
By engaging their interest you also engage their envy at your woman’s good fortune or selection criteria. 
If you remain comfortable and friendly, yet steadfastly devoted to her around her subordinates and allies, then her status among them goes up accordingly.

And if you
really
want bonus points, then flirt shamelessly with the oldest woman in the room.  That’s an Ironwood stand-by that has worked for four generations, now.  Any jerk can go to a party and look pretty . . . it takes a real gentleman to offer sincere enough flattery and good-natured teasing to a woman far past her prime.  Such gallantry is a better DHV than driving up in a BMW for most women.

So to summarize, there are very few social occasions where taking a dominant stance in relation to your wife is not advised.  In most social situations with your wife, you actually do her more favors by appearing as a dominant husband than if you appeared as a weak-willed Beta . . . or even an “equal partnership” facade that most feminist marriages try to present.  Women admire a dominant, tingly-producing man, and they also admire (even if they resent) the women who are with them.  Don’t be afraid to use that.  Indeed, you’d be crazy not to. 

You’d be
amazed
how grateful some wives can be after an exceptionally well-performed work function . . .

Alpha Move: The Cold Cash Move

This one is a little different.

Most Red Pill dudes understand implicitly the role that money (security) plays in courtship.  It's the simplest way for a man to buff his Sex Rank -- billionaires get some play. 

Now most women will insist that it isn't
actually
the money,
per se
, it's money a
sign of success, ambition, yadda yadda yadda, whatever their Hamster tells them to say to keep from being perceived as a money-grubbing goldigging bitch -- fair enough.  The fact is, most women
aren't
money-grubbing golddigging bitches, far from it.  Money is just a simple metric to measure potential security in a mate. 

But that doesn't mean that money doesn't play a role in their sexuality.

Mrs. Ironwood is a case in point.  She was raised in relative affluence, thanks to an ancestor of hers inventing a popular over-the-counter drug and cashing in.  She lived in the "Old Money" part of town (although to be fair, since her family's fortune was post-Civil War and pre-Depression, it's technically counted as "New Old Money" -- that's just life in the South) and went to a private middle school and was a debutante and did other affluent things the extravagance of which now embarrass her. 

I count myself fortunate among husbands in that my wife actively dislikes jewelry, thanks to a father who gave her far too much far too early to make up for being . . . well, her dad.  The only jewelry I've ever given her was her wedding ring.  Her ears aren't even pierced.

Of course, after her parents' divorce and subsequent financial implosion, the money went away, not that she really missed it.  I met her a few years later when she had just turned 19 and was living in a student slum and working as a receptionist, donating plasma to make rent.  Good times.

But thanks to her upbringing, she has no desire for ostentation or status symbols or any of the other crap her peers seem to be invested in.  Money doesn't impress her, save as resources to be devoted to her children and her family.  I found that
intensely
arousing, and an important quality in a wife.  Better, people with money don't impress her, and I've seen her snub millionaires and corporate CEOs to have a chance to speak with an
Auschwitz
survivor.  Money, as an abstract construct, just doesn't impress her.  One of the many things I love about her.

However . . .

A year after we had moved in together (around 1992), while I was still in college, I sold my first published piece.  To be fair, I'd sold it three years before, it was just taking forever to run through the process.  But in early 1992 my first book came out, right after I met her. 

Much to my delight it did well -- in fact, it hit the New York Times Best Seller's list.  And after riding that particular DHV for all it's worth ("Yes, Mom, he isn't just a loser Liberal Arts major -- he's a New York Times Best Selling Author!"  =
GOLD
) a month or so afterwards I caught a second wave. 
My royalty check came.

Now, understand that in 1992 I was making about $15,000 a year in temp jobs, waiting tables and under-the-table stuff while I struggled to finish up my two bullshit majors that had no hope of finding me a job.  I had lived with my parents through most of that to save money, and I was driving a crappy old Vega station w
agon (the first vehicle John DeL
orean ever designed, BTW).

Suddenly I had a check in my hands for a sizable portion of my annual income . . .
and I had earned it with the power of my brain
.  Mrs. Ironwood was certainly impressed.  And she was 19. 

Do you know how an impressed, in-love 19 year old woman expresses herself? 

Physically.  Noisily.  And with great eagerness. 

Yeah, it was like
that.

But here's where it gets interesting.  After arranging to buy a new-to-me Mustang (another story, and a lot more sex) I secretly took out $2500 from my account in cash.  In $100 bills.

That money was destined to be spent -- I had bills to pay.  But I wanted to try an experiment, perhaps one of the earliest Red Pill experiments I ever did. 

I went home to find the future Mrs. Ironwood doing something or other, and I pulled her into the bedroom.  And then without a word I stripped her naked. 

Then I reclined her on the bed.  Then I started laying $100 bills across he
r skin, all over her naked body.

I was testing a theory of one of my all-time favorite sci-fi authors, Robert Heinlein, who had mentioned in the
Notebooks of Lazarus Long
that "Money is the best aphrodisiac, but flowers work almost as well."  I was young, goofy, and had just written a NYTBS novel -- I was at the apex of my mid-20s cockiness.  And I wanted to see if the future Mrs. Ironwood, considering her affluent upbringing, would respond with anything other than "Ick!  You don't know where that's been!", which is what I expected.

What actually happened was very different.

I witnessed the incredible sight of her rolling around in $100 bills in a state of sexual excitement that I had, at that point, never before seen in a woman.  She was a lusty babe when I met her, but put her on a bed of $100 bills and she writhed like a slut in heat with the fleet in town.  Minstrels will one day write songs about the intensity of that crazy afternoon of sex.  At least one neighbor complained of the noise.

Afterwards, when we talked about it, she revealed that yes, indeed, the sight (and smell) of that much cash had a quite unexpected erotic effect on her, one that had embarrassed her, but one which she understood in part because of her affluent upbringing.

She explained that the boldness
of the move -- "It was pure
Alpha!" -- combined with the fact
that I had made the money out of my own talent and skill and imagination
(also, she admits 20 years later, combined with the fact that she was a super-horny 19 year old girl with a nerd fetish) had taken the usual excitement about a visible sign of security like the cash and magnified it in her brain
.  It was the ballsiest, nerdiest power-move she'd ever seen. 

Damp panties, natch.

I wasn't just demonstrating my ability to provide security, she explained
, I was doing it in a bold and deliberate display of nerd power, as primal as beating my chest.
  This was MY money that I had earned . . . and of all the women in the world I wanted to writhe around naked in it with, I had chosen
her
. 

She was aroused because even though she knew the money wasn't hers, the fact that I trusted her enough to roll around naked in a pile of my dough was just too hot to resist.  This was me waving my intellectual dick around, she explained, as dominant a move as I've ever done.  She still has fantasies about that afternoon, she tells me.  Hell, so do I.

A friend of mine (single, successful player) has a similar trick, a move he plays when he's on the road sarging for fresh poon in states he doesn't live in.  He sits at a bar and orders a drink and just starts playing around with five $100 bills --
origami
, bar tricks, etc.  He doesn't spend it, he just
plays with it
.  And before the night is over, he's gotten huge attention (doesn't hurt that he's not bad looking, either) from women.  I've watched him fan out his money and lightly trail it over a girl's face, and then follow it w
ith the line "Have you ever had
five hundred
bucks rubbed across
your nipples?" with an innocent expression on his face.  One of the best closings I've ever seen. 

He's occasionally lost a hundred or so, but considering how many times it's paid off, the Hooker Math is more than adequate.  The thing is, he's not even giving the money to the chick -- he's just showing it off in a cocky, playful, masculine way . . . the kind of thing that drops panties.

So if you want a quick, surprise Alpha buff, and you can afford it, consider this move. 
It’s
best if the money is something you earned or won with your manly skill-set (it doesn't work as well when she knows you just took it out of savings) but any naked display of wealth like that, particularly with an aggressive and cocky presentation, is a serious DHV. 

If you can't afford $100s, then consider $50s or even $20s (NOTE: a big pile of change on the bed DOES NOT
WORK
FOR THIS and it can get pennies stuck in unusual places.  You've been warned.).

Oh, and before you ask, I asked Mrs. Ironwood's permission to share this with y'all.  She hopes you won't think less of her for it.

And what she doesn't know is that I'm planning a reprise of this move in a few months when I get a big pay-out from one of my successful Kindle books.  Only this time I'm thinking 50 $100 bills instead of 25.

It's been twenty years, after all.  Inflation.

[EDIT: Still works.  Works
even better
with $5000 cash.  Gods, I love Kindle.]

Alpha Move:
Midnight
Picnic

When Mrs. Ironwood and I first started going out, we were the typical poor college students living in a student hovel.  "Going out" meant the Wendy's Hot Bar (Wendy's had a hot bar back then) and drinking an embarrassingly cheap bottle of wine at home.

But after a few months the complacency had begun to set into our relationship, and I saw the need, even then, to inject a healthy dose of lusty romance into it to keep us both interested.  Fancy restaurants or theater being far out of our reach, I instead searched for some way to get her in a sensuous, romantic place for some serious no-one-can-hear-you-scream nookie, with accouterments, for less than fifty bucks.  After doing a little basic research, I figured it out.  In retrospect, it was a good Red Pill date moment, simple and elegant, but instructive.  And it made quite an impression.

I took Mrs. Ironwood on a
midnight
picnic.

PREPARATION

This took a bit of prep, of course.   I chose a late Spring, early Summer day, after the pollen but before the mosquitoes, and I carefully selected a secluded site.  Luckily we lived on the edge of the rural/urban interface, so finding a place far enough away from people to ensure privacy, yet close enough to keep it from being a chore to get their in the dark, wasn't that much of a problem.  Even then Mrs. Ironwood could trip over her own shadow.