Originally Posted by
consentingadult
Not so much type related: anyone not taking responsibility for their own lives usually whines a lot, because that is what they do instead of taking action to resolve whatever is bothering them. As if whining will cause the listener to solve your problems.
My GF is about to end a friendship with someone she knows (LSE) since high school, all this woman does is whine about work. The problem here is she hates her job (at the Dutch national bank), but it pays very handsomely and she has a daughter which is slightly handicapped and thus needs special care, so she is not willing to give up the job for something else that pays less but is more enjoyable. Meanwhile her private life is void of enjoyable activities. Thus all this negative energy has to go somewhere and the easiest is to whine to somebody who is willing to put up with the emotional abuse. This is the typical pattern with most whiners: they hate their situation, but are not willing to do something about it or accept the situation as is.
Any type in such a situation can whine. Personally to me the most annoying types when whining are SLEs. There is no bigger loser than a whining SLE.
I used to attract whiners like bees to a honey pot. Nowadays I rigorously shut them out of my life.