Originally Posted by
hitta
Though I don't really buy into socionics, I still subscribe to the same view, just I should word what I was trying to say a bit different.
About INTps not being able to love, a lot of people misinterpreted what I meant by that. Everyone loves, everyone hates; its just the intellectual foundation of which INTps "love" is based on. INTps are critical, fault finding specimen. They have a narrow view of the world in which they are trying to find the perfect operating habitat. When it comes to spousal and mate selection, they tend to look at the person in a "shrinking" or "enclosing" manner in which they are trying to segregate the flaws and isolate themselves with their concept of perfection. INTjs approach "love" from a more all inclusive parameter; they try to remove the perfect habitat from the equation and replace it with a more "complete love". The point I was trying to make about INTps not being able to love was more or less about the INTps having a hard to finding the perfect mate because of the flaws that they see in every object.