Originally Posted by
Adam Strange
None of the many LIE's or LSE's that I know have any interest in personality theories. Some have even told me that they didn't want to hear anything about them, because they saw the idea of having some fore-knowledge of how people can be expected to interact as something that would adversely affect their social and business interactions.
In the meantime, they keep sailing their ships straight onto the rocks and blaming the phases of the moon. Which is not a problem for me. It means less competition. If an LIE is having daily shouting matches with his best (according to MBTI) match, his LSI wife, then he's not going to be focused on the business before him.
Personally, I got interested in it because I was searching for an explanation for why my very evenly-matched ex-wife would leave me. Socionics provided that. She is SLI, I am LIE, our interaction is Supervision, and Supervision is generally rated as being about #12 on a compatibility scale from #1 (best) to #16 (worst). The marriage lasted as long as it did because we really were nearly perfect matches in every other respect. If she had been ESI, I'm pretty sure that we'd be thriving right now.
Since I'm interested in having another long term relationship, I'm interested in doing whatever I can to ensure that it has the greatest chance of success. That includes giving strong consideration to ESI's as mates.