'My ISFP friend seems to consistently like ExxJs. I think he finds it comforting to have the other person be the stronger personality, because he feels like he doesn't have strong personal preferences.|||I think ESFx types can be very alluring to INFx types in general. My current partner is an INFP and he always seemed to attract ESFPs more than any other type, as well as a couple of ESFJs.   ...|||The Secret Window One Hour Photo Death of Seasons The Beach 21 Grams|||I just want to say, I love this thread. It's so refreshing, so much that's internal and that feels out of reach to describe is being given in such beautiful language.  For my own part, I've always...|||To create without doubts at every step.  To lie with someone and feel a part of them rather than another entity that clings.  The ability to think clearly around others.|||Stalking. Always with a face turned towards me. But it has no expression. It is nothing but a jagged shadow, and its spikes can never be seen. No face, no limbs, no discernible appendages to...|||The Man From Earth - I've met no-one (IRL) who has heard of it before I've brought it up to them but most people who have seen it seem to like it. It's definitely interesting, if you enjoy a film...|||What is your Myers Briggs type? INFJ  Which are the Myers Briggs types you are most attracted to ? (pick max. 3, in preference order) Hmm... ENTP, INFP, ISFP  Which are the Myers Briggs types you...|||I believe it's true and I believed it was true before I actually fell in love, but I sympathise in that I wasn't entirely convinced I would be able to sustain it for another person.  Love is seen...|||It varies way too much within types. I'm decent enough at maths, which is lucky because I have to do a lot of it in a chemistry degree... However my INFP boyfriend is just as good as I am and my ESTP...|||I have more friends with a sensing preference that ones with an intuitive preference. I've often found that when I'm with other intuitives we can end up 'talking around' each other. We go off on...|||Since it's supposed to lower inhibitions, I imagine it could have all sorts of effects. One of the interesting things is that it doesn't necessarily make you more extraverted. For my part it can...|||^ Thank you :happy:  Imagine the depth of humanity we would have within us after that.  Do you ever want to just float and be separate from yourself? To not be held back by being your own person?|||I always want the person to feel like the gift is connected to something deep down in them. I kind of don't like obligatory gift-giving like christmas and birthdays because it overwhelms me to be...|||I would have the world stand still and repeat until I had spent one day with every person in the world where they told me every dream and desire they'd ever had. I would ask to know the souls of...|||INFJ 1w9.  My perfect christmas starts with waking up in bed with my boyfriend. We lie there cuddling for a while, remembering we have each other.  Then we make food together for everyone, but...|||I relate, but I feel that struggling to communicate is a problem everyone faces. However, some people make sacrifices in what they accept as being 'close enough' in what they intended others to hear....|||Currently dating an INFP too. In my case he's also an enneagram type four which makes him very intense and hard to reach sometimes.  I love him. Much more than anyone I've dated before. The simple...|||I'm the same way with fluctuating. I was really up and down with people I had feelings for because it changed on my mood with them. When the relationships were going badly it totally disappeared for...|||I can't tell whether my INFP boyfriend has the higher sex drive or me... It's really refreshing that we take turns jumping each other's bones though :laughing:  It never worked with any of my...|||Life in a backpack I am a knapsack Tender my dreams Utterly obscene I make a scene I'm ice-cream Give me my box-car And tell me my dreams Life, it is cake Knife can relate|||These are all very true for me too...  Is it a Judging thing to be constantly anticipating? Whenever I know I need to be somewhere I'm always thinking about the fact that there's a particular time...|||That's really awful to hear you're getting this kind of treatment :sad: Some families really need to just butt out sometimes... It sounds like he cares a lot about you and you feel the same way, at...|||Not really sure what type you guys think my brother is, he displays quite a lot of contradictory characteristics in my opinion. I'm wondering both what you think MBTI-wise and enneagram if any of you...|||I wish I could accept that people are unhealthy for me, instead of obsessively finding faults in myself to excuse the way people treat me and my friends. Sometimes it's better to let go even though...|||I know one, though she could also be an INTJ. I would describe her as caring but a little clueless about people and somewhat judgemental. She also lacks self-awareness (says she is secure in herself...|||- What were you like as a child, were you inherently charming? Did you immediately take a liking to strangers?  I was a lot less withdrawn as a child. Other than that, I don't remember a lot.  -...|||Introversion/Extraversion is the most important because all other functions are subservient to the dominant one, which would be unknown if the first letter was scrapped. INFJs and ENFJs can be...|||It depends what you're talking about. Actual education is built for a combination of N and S, which is the healthy way for things to be. This is less the case back in earlier levels of schooling...|||I want to be a perfect person, no matter how unrealistic it is to expect that. Any time I hear things people say that I can imagine being problems they could have with me I start believing that it is...|||I've self-diagnosed as having Dysthymia for years. I've always been a bit depressed and unhappy but the really serious parts only come now and then, usually they are triggered by me screwing...|||Honestly? Miserable. I'm trying to grow up, be responsible and make the best out of my limitations, but I feel like a failure. It used to be intermittent but now the noise is permeating my head and I...|||Yep. In my case I think it might be because my dysthymia has been getting worse though... I'm struggling to work on something that I know is due soon because I feel like there's no point any more,...|||I expend so much effort trying to have the right facial expressions, it ruins interaction for me. It doesn't feel like I'm really feeling what I'm displaying, I'm too wrapped up in showing the...|||One of three flaws:  - That I put things off because I feel like I'm not capable of doing them well - I cannot outwardly display my feelings in a way that matches their intensity. Usually my...|||This is one of the points where MBTI breaks down and no longer becomes helpful. It is largely irrelevant what type a person is when they are depressed, because a depressed person needs someone to...|||I'm afraid you're just perpetuating the stereotypes. Memorizing is presumed by self-identified intuitives to be the only way that sensors learn. To put it bluntly, if you think this then you are...|||The one INFP I know IRL seems to collect you guys... He already had a couple of ISFP friends in his life when I met him and then when I introduced him to my ISFP friends they loved him too.  It's...|||My love interests have typically been IxFx types and one ENTP.  But I didn't date any IxFx types because I could never push myself to ask them out, so instead I ended up mostly with ESFPs, maybe an...|||I... actually did it...  I'm flabbergasted... All my paranoia, lack of self-confidence, confusion melted away when I flat out asked him today 'why did you ask me if I had ever been interested in...|||I understand why people feel this way but I still ultimately disagree. It is indeed a powerful commitment, but the argument 'if you don't get married then you don't want to commit' is an argument I...|||Marriage would probably hold more weight if it didn't seem like 'showing off' the relationship. It can undoubtedly be a symbol of your love and trust for each other, but ultimately you feel the way...|||Thanks to all of you for your suggestions, I've been avoiding dealing with the situation like a coward for the past week though... but I have updates now!  We started talking about past...|||I don't intend to ever get married. I very much hope I will find someone that I will spend my life with, but not married to them.  I don't like the concept of marriage. It speaks to me of the need...|||She has to be willing to grow a little and to respond positively now and then when you ask a question. The hard part is learning to phrase your questions so she realises you're actually asking her...|||I've never understood the grouping myself. I tend to find INTJs think in a far similar fashion to me than other NF types. As well as that, I've seen an INFP gravitate towards ISFPs constantly. Plenty...|||I too believe that it's a continuum. Bisexuality itself suggests a significant shift towards the middle to me. As in being significantly attracted to both, rather than strongly preferring one and...|||I'm having a real problem working out a situation that's come up recently from meeting this new guy at university. He's a type 4 INFP that I met at a board-gaming club thing and after we got over the...|||Hey that sounds like a tasty sandwich to me :tongue: I don't see that as being very serious though. I think close friends have a tendency to do similar things because they often became friends...|||No problem! Interesting to hear about this 'mimicking'. What kind of stuff does he copy? I'm intrigued as I can never imagine fashioning myself after any of my friends, I am curious what might...'