Quote Originally Posted by Isha
Quote Originally Posted by Jarno
The reason for feeling protected in dual relationship is because your counscious recognizes the part of reality that is perceived by the partner as the part of reality that your own subcounscious can't handle well enough. So it doesn't take any concrete (protective) action of the partner to give you the feeling of protection, like i'm reading in your explanation.
Could it be because

1) Steve is talking about relations of activity
2) Steve has broadened the scope beyond the people in the immediate relationship
3) Steve isn't talking about INTps feeling protected
I know what he wrote, it's just the angle from which things are explained is not well chosen. (IMO)

I used the duality/protection as an example to make that point.