My mother, one more time
I had a typing thread about her before. And I even posted a couple pics and some people were saying she VId ENTp. Which she clearly is NOT. But anyway, I spent the weekend with her and realized that she could be NeFi>FiNe.
She exudes Ne through ever pore. She's always throwing out possibilities. Eventually it gets annoying. She clearly values Ne>Ni and Si>Se but Fe and Fi are harder to decipher and I can't tell about Te or Ti either because she's not strong in T but she is strong in F which I think makes her ENFp.
And I used to see her as rational but I really don't know anymore. Sometimes Ij vs. Ep temperaments are hard to tell apart for me. Are there some easy ways to tell them apart? She's kinda naturally lazy. But she gets excited about going places and doing things. Loves to travel. She's a self-proclaimed 7 on the enneagram. Seems to have a short attention span. Loses things easily. Misplaces her keys almost every day. But laughs about it. It's not easy for her to be organized. She has to force herself. She has an obsession with becoming more self-disciplined. She feels out of control and wants to be in control or something. She talks about it a lot (I get tired of it). She's always berated herself for not being smarter, not understanding academic stuff and not appreciating really good literature. She'd rather just read the latest best seller or whatever.
When I stop to think about it, she does kind of remind me of my ENFp friend (a male though, so it's hard for me to compare them also b/c he's so much younger and she's my mom). Growing up, our house was a mess all the time. Since she's gotten older, she's so much better about it. But I can remember living in total chaos. I guess that doesn't sound much like INFj, eh?
does she sound ENFp? (my dad is ISFp, by the way but heavily Fe-subtype almost to the point of me wondering if he might be INFp)
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