Delta Quadra dating problems

[Raver]

Socionics is only one piece of the puzzle to see if two people will be compatible for relationships or even merely for interaction. Other factors that are just as important as Socionics: enneagram, instinctual stacking and most importantly non-typology personality characteristics.

So dating someone from your quadra can work wonderfully as Socionics intended if you are at least somewhat compatible with non-Socionics factors too. However, if you aren't then it will prove nearly as problematic as dating outside of your quadra, but for different reasons.

[Adam Strange]

Socionics is only one piece of the puzzle to see if two people will be compatible for relationships or even merely for interaction. Other factors that are just as important as Socionics: enneagram, instinctual stacking and most importantly non-typology personality characteristics.

So dating someone from your quadra can work wonderfully as Socionics intended if you are at least somewhat compatible with non-Socionics factors too. However, if you aren't then it will prove nearly as problematic as dating outside of your quadra, but for different reasons.

Other factors do certainly weigh heavily in the mix of compatibility.

For example, my ex and I are, respectively, female and male, and we are both heterosexual. Plus, we are about the same height and body type (with previously noted exceptions), earned about the same amount when we got married, have similar world views (the world is being trashed by irresponsible jerks), have similar levels of intelligence and education, and we both like beer. This got us through many years of marriage, even though our sociotypes (LIE and SLI) are a Supervisory relationship, which is generally rated as being #four from the bottom of the compatibility list.

As the Supervisee, I admired her and was happy. Unfortunately, while I was in this state of blissful ignorance she, as my Supervisor, was busy compiling a list of my faults.

However, this in no way invalidates the idea that there are other, equally important pieces of the relationship puzzle.