'I was in the Navy for 5 years.  I hated every minute of it.  I'm glad I did it now.  I wish I would have been smarter about it.  I could be so set right now.  But I am who I am because of the choices...|||I don't react to it.  People can think whatever they want.|||This is what happens when the top threads in the forum for the last month are all about feelings and relationships.  It makes people insane.|||1. I am married (second time), and I have 3+1 kids. 2. Whatever works is right. 3. Whenever it happens.   4. Single dad is tough.  Can be fun, but a lot of things fall by the wayside when you work...|||That's a strange thing to say.|||I have two tattoos.|||I've seen my parents maybe 6 times in the last 18 years.  I call on birthdays or holidays if I remember, but it's not on the top of my head to do so.  Same with siblings, only much less.|||Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being:  Left Brain     Right Brain 30%     70%  You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of...|||Unless someone blindly trusts another 100% they have trust issues?    In my experience, anyone who is incredibly defensive about trust has an issue.|||Do you still feel the same way?  If so, my previous comment stands.|||I don't have any friends...|||Leonidas may have made his decision emotionally, but it can still be logical to hold off the enemy for a few days.|||Sounds logical to me.  Do what you can with what you have.|||Trust issues.  I so hate that term.    With so little to go on from your story, I'd say you should stay away from any relationship with an intelligent person until you're able to better deal with...|||This is me also.|||Very much this.|||This exactly.|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rlr_xXIQko|||I think that when I show an emotion, it's rather detached from the emotion itself.  It's like I just put on a mask that I think represents the emotion, but they're not really connected.  It's a...|||If you think it's hard to raise an ISTP child, try being an ISTP parent in this society!  EDIT:  Even worse is being a widowed ISTP parent in this society...|||Ha.  Way cool!|||Re-read that...|||That would so rock.|||The functions give me a headache...  I need a dumbed down version of the explanations with concrete examples.|||I can't type people to save my life.  I either like someone or I don't, and don't really go much deeper than that.  I'm almost positive though that my future wife is a XXXP with J tendencies.  :)|||Weird.  Why would you ask for bread after they brought it out?  Girls, stop asking if you look good then!!!  You always do, do you want a ranking every time you ask?|||Do people really know what they're going to do in any given random, hypothetical situation?|||Animals seem to really like me.  I don't mind them, unless they're overly needy.  Cats are awesome.|||I treat people differently based on whether it's a friend, a fling, or a relationship.  A relationship is the only instance where I can see that when I wake up tomorrow, chances are I'll want to be...|||I will be this year, but not tandem.    There's a database of fatalities out there related to skydiving.  Doesn't appear to matter how many jumps one has, you still might die.|||Why do you want to feel like part of a group?|||Why bother?  Do you NEED so many people in your life that you have to give every questionable (or worse) person so many chances to change your opinion of them?|||I don't really get it though.  A long term relationship is a relationship that has lasted a long term...  I'm not sure what there is to like or not like about it...|||What does this mean exactly?|||Because they do!|||Not really trying stuff.  More related to the second, but indirectly.  Being concerned about what I might think about what they did about this or that, or what they are capable of in whatever area.|||Most of this stuff I agree with.  However, the relationships I've had have never started out as friendships.  Most likely for all the reasons that you guys keep saying that are trouble in...|||Ya, this one too.|||I think the biggest issue in my relationships is that people seem to think there's a bunch of expectations, and feel like they need to meet or exceed those expectations.  I have no idea where they...|||I can still be right without having to argue and whatnot.  I'm fine with knowing I'm right.  Don't have to broadcast it, or get anyone else's approval for it.|||I wouldn't know.  I've never been wrong...|||Probably.  I couldn't finish reading the rest of your post with all that blathering.|||I have a lot of weird quirks. The one that bothers me though, is my inability to refer to people by name when talking to them.|||Disappearing without a trace, never to be found again.|||I don't think I trust people at all.  Not in the usual sense.  I guess I have more of a sliding scale of belief and acceptance.  I accept that no one is truly trustworthy, but there are some people...|||I absolutely abuse Amazon Prime.|||Ha.  I just looked at my amazon order history.  34 books this year.    Topics cover:    body language/microexpressions,  persuasion/interviewing,  mindfulness,  lockpicking,  erasing myself, ...|||I do all this stuff with my kids and my soon to be wife!!|||Walks, bike rides, kayaking, playing at the park, or at the beach, frisbee, tossing whatever ball around, hula hooping, as soon as I get the garage organized a bit, I'll start working out again.|||I went to school because I didn't know what else to do.  Now, if I go to school, it's because there is something specific I want to learn about.  I don't worry about whether I'll learn about it...'