For those of you who are interested in Myers-Briggs: can you share your MBTI and the MBTIs of men you have dated?
Gathering collective wisdom about our own personalities and how they mesh with other personalities would benefit us when it comes to dating.
INFP. I honestly find dating really hard as there is not much empathy for women with our kind of dreamy, soft personality. I prefer to date ENFP as they balance out my introverted side. I need someone with that intuitive, creative nature though or we won’t understand each other.
I’m an INFJ and find I also attract people who need saving because they sense my ability to “hold space” for their emotions and understand and accept negative circumstances and/or trauma. For self-protection, I now avoid those with Intuitive Feeling functions like INFPs or ISFPs who frequently need someone else to pour their big, often scattered emotions into. Thanks to FDS, it’s a block and delete when people get too comfortable treating me like a counselor. I’m hopeful to meet a mature ENTP, INTP or even ENFJ.
INFJ- the rarest MBTI type and a magnet for narcissists/psychopaths/abusers! I don't regret it though because we're also the most mysterious 😀 INFJs are typically empaths and lightworkers too.
INFJ gang! Personally I am not a fit for any male MBTI type. Lmao
I'm an INFP. I avoid ISTJ and ESTJ like the plague (because of their lack of emotional intelligence and failure to work on it - ask me how I know 🙄).
I personally prefer someone a little more extroverted as I struggle with the pressure of always having something interesting to say.
On the flip side, extroverts find me a little frustrating as my social battery taps out much earlier than what they'd like.
As I've been doing a lot of growing and evolving lately, I have decided to retake the test. The outcomes: one test says ENFP-A (same result as what I thought about myself a year ago... when I got a different test result, but thought ENFP would be a better fit ), another test says ENTP (LOL this explains the wordiness of following 2 paragraphs). Another test says ENFP (LOL, looks like there is some consistency after all).
I don't find MBTI a very accurate model for categorizing personality. But it can be fun to look through. And so I think people with any personality type can be compatible with your personality. Just that each different mixup of types presents a different set of challenges to overcome. When the will to get along is there, you can get along with anyone. As long as all people involved make an effort to be together. As long as everyone wants it, and is willing to resolve differences. You can make it work. Some relationships would require less compromise because you just naturally work well together. But I don't think MBTI is developed enough to model that. All because the types and concepts of MBTI are so vaguely defined.
And questions on tests such as "I enjoy going to museums"... What are those supposed to test? Whether you like art? I like art. I just don't like the type of art you normally see in museums. And I don't like the pretentious type of people that normally hang out at museums. The posh snobbish types that don't actually care for art, but just go to museums to look classy and sophisticated. Dislike those types a lot. They make going to museums very unpleasant. And you always have to be silent at museums. Why aren't people allowed to just talk? It's different at an art showing or exhibit or event. People actually talk there and you can drink wine and have a nice chat with the creator. Basically I love art, looking at art, and the people who make art... I just dislike the establishments and the people who arrange viewings of art, and the silly goofy people who think that pretending to be into art makes them look classy or something. They're so stiff and boring. So it's such a loaded question that doesn't tell you much about a person. People can (dis)like going to museums for different reasons. What does that even tell you about a person? Would you have had a different assumption about me if I hadn't typed out that paragraph to explain why I dislike going to museums? Would you have assumed I'm not into art? Or that I'm not classy enough or something?
ENTJ. It is the most rare type for women (less than 1%) and the “Steve Jobs” type, meaning I felt self-conscious about it at first because I don’t shout and berate “subordinates.”
But now I embrace the fuck out of it. I wish I knew more ENTJ women. We are actually quite softies.
I am ENFP and I honestly feel like I like ENFPs most. Might also be the ADHD but I just like guys who are outgoing and fun like that. The cool thing about these type is that its still very value based and thoughtful so you get the best of both worlds. I really dont know which other type might suit me.
INTJ here and I grew up surrounded by unhealthy ENFJs pre-FDS. Sociopathic, fake “empathetic” leaders. I was trapped as their "best friend"/"wingwoman" (their pet) who did all the work in the shadows, while they got all the credit. They only liked me for what I could do for them or to boost their status. It was always hot-and-cold with them and they'd outright ignore me if someone was more impressive in academics/status.
To escape, I fell in love with carefree ENFP men who I clicked with instantly. I loved how they were all just fun and laughs, but they were also F-boys and Mommy's boys. Then I fell for a "fellow" INTJ who was an argumentative and misogynistic tyrant 🤡. That absolutely traumatised me.
Come around full circle, my now HVM is a healthy ENFJ!
I don’t know my MBTI (several tests have yielded several different results), but I know I’m introverted and do not mesh well with extroverted men. Therefore, I avoid men with E___ personalities. It took me years to figure this out, but once I did, I was able to streamline my search.
Just saying now that those free online tests are the absolute worst and completely inaccurate with a big intuitive bias that makes intuitives, especially introverted ones, look like magical unicorns who are smarter than everyone else and depicts sensors as idiots. The majority of people testing as INTJ and INFJ are mistyped and usually ISTJ and ISFJs but it varies. Study the cognitive functions if you're truly interested. It IS very useful, if studied correctly!
I'm an ISFP engaged to an INTP. We're technically functional opposites but we share so many values and interests. The only guy I was at all serious about before I think was an ExTP and he turned out to be a nightmare. In retrospect I see he was a slightly pornsick scrote who took pleasure in trying to make me jealous and never took our relationship seriously as long as it was LDR. Loser. INTP is a considerate, funny, caring guy who works hard for us.
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INTJ and nothing has changed much over the last 15 years except that I can empathise better and have some social skills 😂 I really thought me and my ex INTJ could be a match made in heaven but we weren't. I dated what I suspect was an ENXP guy for a while and we did get on like a house on fire, somewhat like an old male friend of mine from my teenage years. I don't know why but the ENFP guys always tell me I'm weird and then profess that they like me 🙄
I'm an ENTJ and I noticed I attract mostly shy guys and assholes.. welp, I love shy guys but not those who can't even gather the courage to take the initiative.
Last time I took the Meyers Briggs, decades ago, I was INTJ. I feel like I should take it again, cause I feel I'm at ENTJ now, or possibly ENPJ.
INFJ - the advocate
when i was under 30 i typed as an INTJ. i’m ENTJ for the most part. ironically my most recent test typed me as INTJ, but i believe it’s because i recently stopped dating with an INFP, and it has been emotionally difficult. i thought ENTJ/INFP would be compatible. the pairing is known as a Pedagogue pair, which had the highest potential for growth and transformation. he denied compatibility…i think he didn’t want to grow and deal with discomfort. i don’t know the types of my other exes, though i did have a 2.5 year relationship with an Enneagram 4 (i think INFPs often type as 4s). and yes, take personality typing with a grain of salt, just like astrology. the map is not the territory.
Got a career coach to test me and I am 100% INTP.
I personally have experienced an ambiverted social style so I’m probably a little ENTP too.
I haven't dated anyone for a lot of reasons. Mostly because most people's motivations are insultingly transparent.
INFP over here. To be honest I don't know the type of the people I dated.
INTJ here! (And I can assure you that I am typed correctly) My ideal match supposedly is ENFP. I only know 1 ENFP Woman. She was very quick to move on, Not interested in investing time to deepen the friendship so IDK.
My relationships:
INTP: was prone to addictions, quick fixes, couldn't hold a steady job, massive superiority complex but whined about basic live tasks. Didn't want to leave the house, hated human beings, even mistreated animals in the end. 😢 Hard No from me. Was a horrible Match. I think an INTP needs to be mature and developed before they should think of building a relationship.
ENTP: Overall wonderful but couldn't admit when he was wrong, couldn't stop arguing. It broke my brain.
ENFJ?: The best match so far. Overall wonderful, too. Good communication, generous, welcoming. Bit too socially conformist in social situations, loves drama a bit too much but thinks he is extremely rational (ofc). A few minuses but many big positives!
I'm an INFJ and feel like we have a lot of pickme traits off the bat. I've had to work hard because I'd attract deceptive men and men who wanted to use me as a free therapist and placeholder. I tend to be attracted to ENFPs and crushed on a lot but dating them never came to be as I'd usually see through them too quickly.