'I ❤ my ISTP but I don't always ❤ his jokes as much as he is ❤'ing them when he tells them.  In fact his enjoyment of his jokes usually makes it hard to follow the joke. As he has his own thing...|||Plus, its just WRONG.  I am not seeing ISTP in this.  But maybe because my ISTP embraces the light side. Not everything is about type.|||My ISTP is also more a lone wolf.  He can lead if asked. He also is fine following when its what he wants to do...|||n2freedom I am glad you found your type! Your guy must not have been ISTp in Socionics, otherwise that would have all rung true. Now I don't know Enneagram that well, either.  As much as I like...|||Hi n2freedom!!  How are you?  I hope you are well! Now, am I confused or did you used to think you were ENFP?? Did you change, or am I just remembering wrong?    I hope you are in the mood for a...|||Hi, flyincaveman,   I do think she sounds INFp.  Distraction and lack of sensory awareness is consistent with NF but I its most pronounced in INFps.  Feel sorry for her in such activities, she just...|||@flyincaveman, Is it possible she is another type??    Because when I read your posts I see things completely inconsistent with the INFJs I know. Here are some reasons:   1) the INFJs I know are...|||How exciting! Congratulations!!! May your marriage be blessed!  Are you in wedding-planning mode now??   So is he done being stuck now? I assume it was work-related?   My ISTP was completely...|||Well this is longer than I intended. Its about my ISTP's breakups, and then it goes into how I met him.  Just can't help it, he is so much on my mind all the time. But maybe you younger ISTPs will be...|||Wow this is really cool. I looked at these pics and they all share something with my ESTP son (age 17). Often a broader (not too broad)slightly upturned and well-formed nose, large eyes with full...|||This sounds like my ISTP who is very clean and wears clean but worn, comfortable clothes.  I know just what to buy for him - neutral color, neutral print or plain, and most important: a soft...|||My ISTP brother: BMW motorcycle|||Interesting!   I have a quick assessment! The postive is my NeFi makes quick assessments often spot-on. (But not always).  My instant assessment is that you are ISTp because if you were my...|||ESTj is a great match for ISTp. Perhaps for you a better match? Maybe, especially if the ENFps you have met don't meet other important criteria - like shared values and goals, chemistry. Mirrors are...|||Yes, many ISTPs are ISTjs in Socionics, so for them, the whole list is different than the one I just listed (find ISTj list easily on that linked chart). Yes, for Socionics relationship theory to be...|||Just for fun, your MBTIs according to my above-linked Socionics opinion, which agrees INFJ is the best... 15. ENTJ 11. ESTP 3.   INFJ 6.   ENTP|||Socionics has much more to say about relationships between types than MBTI.   FYI, you can look on the following linked chart to see how a Socionics ISTp relates with the each of the other types....|||Hmm. @Cotillion, you are so harsh.  And you find me so annoying.   I wonder if your ISTP is ISTj/LSI in Socionics.   Because to me we seem like Conflictors.  My strongest function is Ne,...|||oops|||P.S. Maybe you can print this and have your husband read a copy and a counselor read a copy.  You can highlight parts that have particular resonance with you. There you go. All your expectations for...|||Because I feel sympathetic to your trapped position, and in interest of sharing info I have spent time learning, I just spent a LOT of time combing through that link with the commentary and advice...|||Mip  Aww, here, have a virtual hug - (((hug))).  IRL I would respect your space!  :)  Because I do get it.  I agree with others here that this counselor is dead wrong. You are you and we all...|||Wow, I don't think you read between the lines at all here.  editing to add: Cotillion - I get it. You are thinking it was Fe. No, it was all Fi expression and not offensive at all to my ISTP....|||I just want to write about my ISTP because I am in my last long, long wait til we can be together. We cannot see each other til August and I am thinking of him all the time.  I was thinking about a...|||I know this is old post is last months, but I want to say to srsly, yes, its true, you can't make bids for ISTPs reactions. They know what you are doing, and they won't play. When I have wanted more...|||Falling Leaves, I love your chicken video. So funny. We raised chickens once - my ex did most of that, but I collected eggs. And cooked them. We had 3 hens and one rooster. One day I went in and...|||Well, dear Mip, just for a point of information, in Socionics, if you are in fact what they call ISTp and he is in fact ESFj (often the same as Meyers-Briggs types, not always) then you are the...|||My ISTP showed this high priority early in the relationship. As I asked him questions - because I fell hard and fast for him and thirsted to understand him more - he sometimes reacted very...|||I agree with TheLaughingMan, if he has decide to leave it might very well be hopeless to salvage it.  My hunch is he is right on that.   One of my brothers is ISTP, and I remember him breaking up...|||LOL, this is probably true. My brother's wife is an ENFJ accountant, working for a big job for a top-10 firm shortly for college. She once confided to me that she attributed her success to having a...|||My ISTP says that it annoys him to be asked to change direction.  If he is set on a path to do something, and is asked to do something else, he really hates getting off the path he is set on.  It...|||This is interesting. I will have to ask my ISTP this one and report back.  The chewing complaint makes me think of silent retreats I take almost annually. Everyone stays silent all week (or weekend)...|||If you are not doing these things, I recommend just basic taking care of yourself (which is hard to do under stress). Eat right. Protein and veggies for breakfast work well. A small baked or boiled...|||Dear ISTPs,  Its my one-year anniversary of signing onto this site, today, Thanksgiving day.  Which was about the time I realized my ISTP love is ISTP.  Whom I met last October, after some years of...|||My ISTP really appreciates - and seems to really need - my assistance with getting things in order. He works great alongside me and we get a lot done, and we just enjoy each other's company while we...|||This election - like about every other - is just a matter of who is less worse.|||Dear ISTP,   Tomorrow its our to-the-day anniversary of when we met, after those years of writing.  It was that day I fell for you completely even though I did not want to.  That day everything...|||Wow, what a great Mom to ask this.  I think give her a lot of space, knowing that you are going to see things differently.  Make suggestions carefully and tactfully, like: I have a thought on this...|||I don't think its about immaturity. I think its type. Fi maybe. I know three INFJs who, all three, at some time (or still) are martyrs to impossible relationships: their one true love is the one they...|||ISTP/ISFJ was also my parent's relationship. Mom quickly deteriorated into Alzheimers after Dad died; they had been close from beginning to end. Even though I have heard that its a fact that parents...|||The same thing happened to my ISTP after marraige with his ENFJ.  Fortunately he realizes now he is quite the opposite of asexual. His ENFJ was damaged, too, but I think the fact that they are ISTp...|||I think make yourself socialize a tiny bit more than you may be inclined as an I, and be a tiny bit more open when you talk to people, and look for evidence of common values and goals, and in the...|||My ISTP is so run down and worn out from his daughters continual hurricane of Fe drama; he can't wait to come here.    In my own opinion, my F is pretty mild to be around, since its Fi and I prefer...|||This is long, a couple of reasons, one I am ENFP so a long talk about my relationship is par for the course, and two, part of its about sex, and you know what they say about those who are not having...|||Those two statements I bolded give me the idea she is ISTP/ISTp, and you ENFP/ENFp...  I could be wrong, but that's my thought.  As to the withdrawal after a night together, from what I remember...|||Only sometimes. Less than half the time in fact, I believe, because there is a study published somewhere on percentages of that.  And there are other Socionics types an ISTP might be besides ISTp or...|||Trust your ENFP intuition!  It really works! It is a very strong point for us.  ISTP is not working on intuition quite so much as you of course, and maybe thats a reason they need more time to be...|||I am in love with an ISTP and this has been developing over a year. It is good to get advice here on this forum - what people said here about how they are as well as what I read about ISTP was like a...|||Dear ISTP you are perfect. You consoled me when I wanted to console you. You only were afraid I was telling you I don't love you which I will never say; I love you more. You agree, we cannot be a...|||Dearest ISTP, I love you, I love you more each time I see you and the sadness cuts deeper and deeper when it comes time to part.  I miss all of our companionship, even doing dishes together the last...'