In two words, an ESI. Of course.
I knew when I wrote that post I should have added that the scary part of seeing how an IEI reacts to luxury is wondering whether they are attracted to the luxury or to me. In my business, the amount of money I have goes up and down. Mostly up, but sometimes down. I take risks, I raid and I rescue, and this means that money flows in and it can also flow out. I'm basically a wolf. I need a stable, equal partner, not someone who values me only for how much money I can supply to them.
The IEI's are entertaining. They are both extremely smart, one is a stunningly beautiful blonde woman from France and the other has a Ph.D in my field. Their ages are right. I really like their Ni, they really like my Se and the fact that I understand them and their mirror neurons very, very well without being obvious about it.
But I am their Supervisor, which has been called a relationship of one-sided conflict. I just got out of a relationship like that, and I'm smart enough to know where these other two relationships will eventually end up.
When I first met the French woman,
I was immediately attracted to her, but was just beginning to learn about Socionics.
I bought some art from her and told her I found her very attractive and wanted to sleep with her. (IEI's sometimes have trouble seeing things in the real world, so you have to spell it out for them.) She replied that she was engaged, and was not attracted to me. Nevertheless, she and I went out for lunch, dinner, coffee and drinks over several months. She showed me his picture, I could see he was an ESTJ, and I knew that she wouldn't be engaged for long.
When he inevitably asked for his ring back, she was depressed for a month, and then told me that liking and loving someone is a decision, and so can be changed. Then, she said to me, “If you don't cook and you don't clean, what can you bring to a relationship?” It is clear that she is reconsidering her initial response to me. That is Fe. I generally like Fe when I see and experience it, but its dependence on external variables scares the hell out of me. Nevertheless, she is intelligent, stunning and entertaining, and I'm having lunch with her today. The Ph.D, tomorrow.
An example: My LSE sister married an IEI. (Conflict.) She makes six figures, he does whatever he wants, which is mostly going on adventures alone, but he doesn't really have a job. This would ordinarily not matter, except for the fact that their marriage exists as long as she keeps the money coming in. When she quit her job for a short time, he suddenly found another woman “friend” who was a lawyer, until my sister got another job. You can read about their marriage here:
http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...Stratiyevskaya
Now, this is not meant to be a criticism of IEI's. As I said, I like them a lot. Certainly enough to sleep with them. Unfortunately, their sex drive is much, much lower than mine, and they tend to prefer imagination to reality. But this paper is a very accurate description of what can go wrong when a person is attracted to their Conflictor, and their Conflictor and their Supervisor both can look an awful lot like their Dual. Especially from a distance, and if you lack a context for understanding relationships.
One of the reasons I joined the16types is that they have the best information. Stratiyevskaya's paper on IEI's and conflict was so spot on, I couldn't help but read her paper on duality between ESI's and LIE's. Her description of LIE's was also dead-on.
So, I looked up ISFP's on YouTube, and was immediately struck by the way that most ISFP's came off as, I hope you'll pardon my ignorance and prejudice here, brainless strippers, and I thought that somewhere, someone has made a terrible mistake. They couldn't possibly be my Duals.
Then, I met a female ESI in person, and then I met another, and I completely changed my mind. Personality-wise, they are perfect. But both of them are too young. Or actually, I'm too old for them, although one of them disputes that.
So, to answer your question in more that two words,
I'm waiting for an ESI whose numbers are the same as mine. She doesn't need money, she just needs to be intelligent, age-appropriate, interested in something, have her own style and have similar life goals to mine (I'm pretty flexible here*), and otherwise, just be herself. From what I've seen, her ESI-ness will take care of most of the rest.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCfu4JKtop0