Cac4, thanks for your recent post - very helpful on a few levels. I will check out the book you mention (think it's available at my local library? - I'll try that tomorrow)
Also - I am familiar with mb personality typing, but not as mapped to eneagrams (which is new to me). You are close (75%) with the INTJ but I'm baffled on how you came up with the I part, as I am a solid E. ;-) Actually, to be precise - I'm an EN(T/F)J as everytime I've taken the long test online (as recently as a few months ago), my answers straddle me only 1 smidge on the T side of the thinking/feeling continuum. Anyway, can you point me to a site that maps the myers-briggs to enegrams as I couldn't find one readily when I searched +eneagrams, +myers-briggs. On that note, you might like this:
http://www.xeromag.com/fun/personality.html See the site for the full entertaining descriptions of the following archtypes: ENTJ: The Evil Overlord ENTP: The Mad Scientist ENFJ: The Cult Leader ENFP: The Scientologist ESTJ: The Bureaucrat ESTP: The Conman ESFJ: The Control Freak ESFP: The National Enquirer Headline INTJ: The Outside Contractor INTP: The Egghead INFJ: The Conspiracy Theorist INFP: The Idealist ISTJ: The Thought Police ISTP: The Psycho Vigilante ISFJ: The Martyr ISFP: The Crackpot
As an aside, it's not that I don't like to (over)analyze things, because *I* do. It's just that my H couldn't care less to dwell on the hows/whys of things (let me qualify - he likes whys/hows of engines and anything presented on the discovery channel but human psychology, his eyes glaze over) and I am trying to take more positive action based strategies given how he operates.
Basically, from all I've pieced together here, I have to tame down my yang (a lot), truly work on connecting with him better on a non-sexual level, and assume a very complimentary (as appropriate) language stance.
OK. He comes home from a business trip on Friday, after being gone since Sun... good time to put some new vibes forward.
thanks, gang.
Last edited by loonyqt; 08/30/0702:33 AM.
36 y/o HD in committed monogomous relationship for 15 years (at least on my end, assumed on his as well) 2 children, 6.5 dd & 5 ds
