So, a bit of background, I guess.
I've been hanging around on this forum for maybe about a year now, and at some point late last year made a 'Type Me' thread, as one does (if anyone wants to see it can be found here: https://www.the16types.info/vbulleti...re-Manatroid92).
After bouncing between several types, some months ago it was suggested for what - at the time - seemed like a decent enough reason that I was EIE-Harmonising (Dialectic-Algorithmic Cognitive Style). After mulling over and looking at type descriptions I came to eventually agree with the typing: sure, I'm a reserved person, but I'm also quite prone to doubt and hesitation, and in the past I've even had my emotional moments, some of which involved breakdowns. Even when I had doubted the suggested typing, I still came back around to EIE several times.
Come to today, I had a small conversation with my mum (who knows me pretty well) and kind of asked indirectly-related typology questions regarding myself. From what she said, it made it appear that my strengths were more Te-related than Fe- or even Fi-related. I wasn't too surprised by this, but it did make me think on my typing again for another reason.
My partner is an ESI, almost no question about it. The idea of someone being highly knowledgeable is very appealing to her (she has said so herself), highly economically minded, she is definitely strong in Se, and she doesn't value Ne at all. Before, it seemed to me that us being Mirage-relations made the most sense, but looking at Activity relations on Wiki-socion I found a quote that, among a few other bits and pieces, I couldn't help but consider...
...which, thinking back, is pretty apt in regards to all the times that we have been apart for various reasons and then come back together. I always knew this was true of Activity relations, actually, but looking at it again makes me re-think everything over again.one property of activation relations: once you spend several days away from each other all the differences and disagreements are forgotten
To be fair, while I'm not an intensively emotional person, I *can* be quite expressive/comical and over-the-top at times. I know that type descriptions can be really detrimental to typing someone on their own, of course, but as far as ILI-descriptions go, one would think they're the most uncongenial and humourless people on Earth (and heck, maybe that's true in relative terms)! The other thing is, though, that I pretty much don't care much about money/profit at all, and money is supposedly a very consistent theme with Gamma/Delta types. ILIs are also supposedly very meticulous/thorough with details, and I've, on occasion, been quite sloppy instead.
That being said, I think the posters I find most interesting on the forum tend to be Gamma-people as well, so all things considered, being an ILI is not out of the realm of possibility.
Any thoughts are welcome to be posted, though I guess this was as much for getting my thoughts out as it was asking for opinions from other ILIs/Gammas.