View Poll Results: For those of you in relationships - Does your SO know/know about socionics?

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  • Yes, they're interested and involved in socionics

    5 29.41%
  • Yes, they know of it and aren't all that interested

    10 58.82%
  • Yes, but I only let them know by accident and am avoiding the subject

    1 5.88%
  • No, it hasn't come up yet but if it does I'm happy to tell

    1 5.88%
  • No, and they will NEVER KNOW

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    Humanist Beautiful sky's Avatar
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    Dual type (as per tcaudilllg)
    Enneagram 2w1sw(1w9) helps others to live up to their own standards of what a good person is and is very behind the scenes in the process.
    Tritype 1-2-6 stacking sp/sx


    I'm constantly looking to align the real with the ideal.I've been more oriented toward being overly idealistic by expecting the real to match the ideal. My thinking side is dominent. The result is that sometimes I can be overly impersonal or self-centered in my approach, not being understanding of others in the process and simply thinking "you should do this" or "everyone should follor this rule"..."regardless of how they feel or where they're coming from"which just isn't a good attitude to have. It is a way, though, to give oneself an artificial sense of self-justification. LSE

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    no

    If I were to introduce socionics to a boyfriend, I'd only talk about it in layman's terms. None of this "functions" and "dichotomies" bullshit, just talk about socionics without actually saying the word. If he asks I'll probably say that "this is what I learned in my psychology research" and just roll with it. I may talk about the terminology at some point, but only after it's established that what I'm talking about isn't total bullshit.

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    I mentioned it as it is to my girlfriend when I first started reading about it not all that long ago. I have come to see it not as an end in itself but as a means to asking questions about myself and others from aspects I had not strongly considered. She's not all that interested and is highly skeptical besides, though the subject does help start conversations about similar subjects.

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    My gf has a pretty good grasp of types/values/traits (IMO). She is not that much interested in the theory, but in practice/experience rather. She often dismisses me when I talk - when she's focused on something else - but she's excited by the new revealings we find and always keeps an eye on things. When she travels and meets people, basically the first thing she tells me about them is a guess about their type, then starts describing them and their actions to me (I typed her family before meeting them in person).

    Some times our opinions diverge, for instance her first ex was typed by us as Gamma initially, though in time she grew convinced that he's likely Beta NF based on our discussions, new findings and her insights. So basically we use a mix of our opinions as "our type list", though I'm usually the one who draws the bottom line when we have much data or it becomes obvious, and I have the time and interest to analyze it - and when I actually manage to figure something out, of course.

    Also, she was an user on this forum and was very opinionated regarding some things, even if she was not arguing with users. She is particularly annoyed by the crap people post in the Alpha quadra subforum, when the representatives of this quadra are misrepresented (she's an Alpha, too) - eg "Alpha music", or allegedly SEI/Si things. Very vocal against the "ILE-ness" or "SEI-ness" of some mistyped users - only when they project their personality traits upon the other Alpha Irrationals, thing she takes personally - though her complaints are virtually always directed at me, instead of the impostors :|.
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    Last edited by golden; 06-09-2011 at 08:24 AM.
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    My significant other... hmm... how should I put this... yes, he knows. Hint: I'm not gay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Golden View Post
    And it seems that since I'm not a True Believer but see Socionics as just another way to put names to patterns already evident in human nature, there's nothing there for him to be terribly concerned by.
    Doubleplus

    Socionics is just a series of names for things that are in the world anyway, and which many people understand intuitively. In many ways it is very Ti/Fe: a logical reification of "ethical" awareness. Also, note that while "reification" has a negative connotation, I do recognize that the "schematic" of Ti allows for the expansion of socionics, allowing it to be a more complete picture with more useful hypotheses than this sort of "intuitive socionics" would otherwise allow for.

    And of course, names are always useful handles for mentally manipulating objects in order to understand them better.

    No SO, but it would probably be rather like Galen described, talking about how x or y is just "that kind of person," you know, standard IEI "what kind of person is this" advice.
    Not a rule, just a trend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valori View Post
    I mentioned it as it is to my girlfriend when I first started reading about it not all that long ago. I have come to see it not as an end in itself but as a means to asking questions about myself and others from aspects I had not strongly considered. She's not all that interested and is highly skeptical besides, though the subject does help start conversations about similar subjects.

    I was going to reply that the poll needed an "I am the significant other" option. I am highly skeptical, but it does make a good jumping-off point for discussion, and it's an interesting exercise as long as one doesn't take it as the One Sure Way of understanding people around you. <3

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