TS, People react to self confidence. Period. End of story. If blackfoot's got it, he's going to attract other people with it.
If you don't have it, your wife will not be attracted to you.
Truly, it has little to do with macho-ness and women liking submission and more to do with the positive side of this sort of person.
Lemme ask you this: Are you normally this negative with your spouse?
I have to tell you that I am intrigued by your situation and would like to respond but your negativity towards other posters turns me off.
Like most women, I am attracted to self confident people who do not feel the need to put others down in order to make themselves look better, or to feed some inner beast in themselves that gets off on negativity.
I've tried being compassionate to you on your thread--and I have responded, so don't even go there--but you seem less interested in talking about your situation and more interested in attacking those posters whom you sense are like OM.