Skoffin
<font color=#00EE99>She Whose Name We Do Not Speak
- MBTI
- INTP
You know INFPs are supposed to be your most compatible companions, Skoff. <3
And yet I have the urge to strangle most of them.
You know INFPs are supposed to be your most compatible companions, Skoff. <3
INFJ. Not based on my interactions here.. but I have been friends with two INFJs, one male one female for some time. I have the same issues with them both--though they don't know each other.
I will now commence the ranting.
I can never live up to their expectations. It seems like I'm always falling short of being.. moral and appropriate or serious and on-time or available.
My flakyness drives them both crazy. Which I can understand how it would--it drives me crazy but I always feel I have to cater to ten things/people in my life at once.. so when I break plans or am late, I get shunned for awhile.
For example, I was moving all last week, working extra hours, and helping my boyfriend's dog reacclamate to it's new home... and my INFJ friend insisted I go to her housewarming party on a day that I was trying to do all three of those other things at once.. so I said, "I'll try." I didn't make it. She will not return a phone call or an email or whathaveyou.. But I'm used to it.. it happens all the time.
Anyway. They both just disappear after awhile and then reappear months later to be friends. It frustrates me.
I get the impression that INFJs are very very demanding friends, despite the need to maintain harmony with people--if you don't live up to their expectations and you upset their comfortable structure you're punished with months of silence.
Yeah, unfortunately, you've pretty much summed up my relationships with INFPs. I dearly love you guys, but I get really hurt and offended and take it personal when INFPs refuse to accommodate others and insist on doing whatever it is you feel like doing (which is what it seems like on our end, even though I know that isn't what's going on - only due to years of experience). It's as offensive to us as forcing people to do something they don't want to do is to you guys.
However, the silence isn't punishment. It's sulking. We're hurt and offended and think that means you don't care about us, so we avoid people we think don't care about us, or will be selfish and hurt us again. It doesn't make much sense, but that's how we are. It seems like you understand the dynamic very well though, and that's good because NFJs and NFPs make a fantastic team when they can overcome these obstacles.
But, aside from those things, I get along well with my NFPs.
I'm really not sure of the types of most people I know. Of those that I do know the types of, most of the ones that I tend to clash with are INFPs. They drive me up the bloody wall, and the sensitivity and sometimes overly emotional outbursts makes me want to strangle a few. One of the people I consider 'worse person in the world' is an INFP, apparently.
Tricky thing is I'm also dating one.
My vote in this thread is old, and honestly only reflected my opinion of my father, who is a negative example of an ESTJ. I honestly have the potential to get along, or not get along with any type. By far I tend to have the most internal dislike and repulsion to INFP's and INTP's. There is something about secondary Ne that really can rub me the wrong way, and it is usually a very silent form of communication that I have a difficult time addressing. Further, I am usually met with responses that in my eyes, lead to nowhere. I co8uld further generalize it down to NP types in general. My brain just doesn't get Ne, and most Ne types tend to either me facinated with me placing me on a pedastal I dont want to be (ENxP types mostly), or they tend to think they understand me, but infact do not understand me even in the slightest (INxP types mostly).
As I said above though, I have the potential to get along or not get along with any type.
I can't really pick a specific type, but here's a list of the types that have the potential to piss me off:
ENFJ
ENFP
ENTJ
ENTP
ESFJ
ESFP
ESTJ
ESTP
INFJ
INFP
INTJ
INTP
ISFJ
ISFP
ISTJ
ISTP