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Some Douche On PerN in Response to Caregivers and Coddling
*ghost voice*
Caregiver doesn't literally mean care-giver, it stands for Si-ego. You have to take into account the bias the might have gone into the naming process; Gulenko is an INTj and so he would naturally be slightly biased towards Si-egos, Alpha SFs being caregivers to him. I wonder if an ISTj created the romance styles we would end up with drastically different names for the groups. Best to stick with how they're defined with respect to Model A.
IME, none of the T types are very overly caregiving (i.e. overprotective and motherly, which is all I can think of when I hear caregiver). That's more suited to extroverted feeling types. Si-ego types might be most in-tune with providing physical comfort and being aware of how the surroundings affect the person's mood, but probably not calling you every 5 minutes to check how you're doing kind of care-giving. If I had to rate from most prone to coddling to the least, I'd rate them:
ExFj > ExFp > IxFj > IxFp > ExTj > ExTp > IxTj > IxTp