I think I've realized yet another parallelism between strengthening the body via Lifting and the strengthening of your marriage via Alpha traits - and I humbly submit it here for an honest debate of its accuracy, misleadings, merits and drawbacks. Let's start with the idea and progress into the FR.

Idea

When you lift, you occasionally need a "Deload" where you temporarily drop your working weights by a considerable amount while you heal and prepare for the next surge of progress in the gym. You may decide to do this every few weeks as part of your routine, or when your lifts stall, or when you've injured yourself or otherwise taken an extended break from the gym.

Monthly Routine Deload

The predictable one week per month deload that many lifters perform mirrors the MRP recommendations of adapting your Alpha/Beta ratios (A/B) during the wife's cycle... It sits somewhere between "optional" and a truth-table of pros / cons. It's a rhythm that you probably won't benefit from until you've been Lifting / MRP for a while.

In Lifting

SL5x5 recommends against a monthly deload for pure beginners, as the weights aren't heavy enough to warrant it. If you're weak, skipping every fourth week or deloading your squat to 25lbs isn't going to help your strength...

In Alpha

Athol Kay, when discussing A/B in MMSLP, recommends focusing on your weakness (typically Alpha traits)... If your Beta is high, being more Beta in tune with your wife's cycle isn't going to do much for your marriage.

Stall Deload

So maybe you've been lifting for a couple months now... Maybe you've read the sidebar and starting running your MAP and passing some Shit Tests... You're on a positive path of taking responsibility for your body and the Captaining of your ship... You put down the bottle, but still have a lot of growth ahead of you...

In Lifting

You've been the textbook definition of linear progression. You break into triple digits on your Overhead Press, and only rep 4/3/3/2/2. Next workout, 4/4/3/3/2... and again... Time to deload 20% and run your progression again, usually passing your previous personal record with ease. This deload is simply part of gaining strength.

In Alpha

The shit tests become more subtle; comfort tests emerge and you fail some. You try to take full responsibility for your ship, but you drop the ball on some logistical / financial / important area that you thought you had a handle on. Time to deload. Admit your faults, delegate some tasks. Re-read chapters / books / posts that apply to your specific troubles. Scale back your alpha / dread level / assholery a bit, and run your progression again.

Injury Deload

In Lifting

Maybe you thought that squatting the bar was for sissies, loaded up the iron and only progressed linearly for a week before stalling. Or maybe you added 15lbs per workout instead of 5lbs... But your form sucks and you injured yourself by exhaling at the top of the Row movement. Time to deload by 50% or to beginner level. Check your pride, research form and technique, watch YouTube videos, and do it right.

In Alpha

You swallowed the pill, and you.. are... PISSED. You're lashing out, you skip straight to Dread Level 7. Your drunk-ass threw the bottle of Rum into the fireplace in a fit of rage and littered your chambers with broken glass and half-burnt maps. You'll show your crew / wife who has the balls... But you can't... You look like a psychopath. You're floundering because your newfound assholery makes your ship miserable and even more unstable. Deload / go to the beginning. Read the sidebar, move slowly... It's a marathon, not a sprint.

FR

Wife and I had a child a few months ago and the whole ship was rocked. I had run my MAP and reclaimed my captaincy during the pregnancy with Dread level 4 / 5 by the third trimester. Postpartum, I stopped the gym and backslid into some more Beta behavior and attitudes. Early November, I rejoined the gym (deloaded, of course) and started adjusting the A/B back to MRP levels. Wife and I had a micro-"event" a few weeks ago; it was more-or-less a recalibration of expectations for one another. Plenty of positive outcomes for the family unit.

Well, this Captain went too heavy this past week. After a successful month of being a growing Oak, my nuts got too big for my branches... I skipped from Dread level 2 to 4, and cut my wife out of some important logistical / financial things at home and subsequently dropped the ball on them. I treated all fitness tests like shit tests and was an arrogant asshole, all while drinking behind the ship's wheel.

After some nasty fighting with the Mrs in the past 24 hours and this idea of "Deload" in my head, I decided to give it a whirl (for science)... I apologized (gasp!) for cutting her out and dropping the ball. I apologized for my selfish assholery (gasp! again), condescension, etc. I'll be scaling the Dread level back to 2, re-reading WISNIFG, and toning down the AM and A&A while I build up some Beta balance. I'll still swat shit tests away as I'm not trying to lose ground, but I need to scale back enough to re-establish Oak balance (equal A/B) before moving on to higher Dread and increased Alpha traits...

If there are interested parties, I'll report back my findings on what impact this Alpha Deload has on future progress...

tl;dr: Is there a parallelism in deloading weights in the gym and alpha traits in marriage?
Do you think an "Alpha Deload" can make the road ahead easier or is it blue-pill regression in disguise?

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