Baggy, I never said I was a subservient house wife. Don't be silly!
Trust me on that one. I'm just talking about behaving in a whole new way compared to my previous life.
But...(ahem)...one of the reasons I said that my relationship isn't actuall a TIH one is precisely because I am definitely not "in hand".
My man needs me to be the strong one sometimes and to take him to task on certain things. He needs me to be our moral leader, and if he gets out of line, no whimpy housewife is going to make him do the right thing. I, however, with my own very large alpha female-ness, can indeed make him do the right thing, and he acknowledges that he needed my help in that.
I don't take any bull crud from no one, least of all him. He knows it and respects me. I've had to stand my ground on nearly everything, because he is in fact very alpha and will just push people around if they let him.