If they feel like they always have to be this tough guy around you too, he’ll be very unhappy.
You’ll both also get frustrated by feeling like your partner is trying to boss you around. On the flip side, you also don’t want to be a very weak personality type. You can’t be a pushover when dating an alpha male because they’ll literally run the entire relationship. You’ll be really unhappy this way because your opinions and ideas will just get lost beneath the alpha male’s.
If you have a very strong alpha personality, don’t try to date an alpha male. Plus, he won’t really like that either because stomping all over you won’t make him feel like he’s in charge.
Guys who are always the alpha in the room tend to need a place to break down.
Maintaining that control all the time is really difficult.
It’ll just feel like you don’t have any backbone, which isn’t attractive. Some alpha males are known for being bad boyfriends and partners.
Not all, obviously, but these types of guys get bad reputations for a reason.
Because they have such pushy personalities, it’s easy to just let them do what they want simply because it’s hard for you to stand up to them. In order for the relationship to work, he needs to respect you.
And that means if he’s ever acting like a dick due to his dominant personality, you have to put him in his place.
And that’s usually really attractive to certain women, for obvious reasons. [Read: 20 alpha male characteristics to spot one right away] Dating an alpha male and making it work You might not always have the best time dating an alpha male, though.