Affinities
In the marriage class I mentioned on Tuesday, my wife and I each did a personality inventory and found that despite our different interests, we have a lot of similar traits. Here's how we match up in four different quadrants of our personalities:
Leader determined |
Partier creative |
Friend loyal |
Worker controlled |
Of course, this is only where we match up. My wife is much more of a partier than I am, so she had more attributes in that quadrant, while I'm more of a leader than she is, so I scored higher there. We found, though, that both of our personalities center around relationships—the deeper the better. That's a big part of why we're so close. Our needs and ways of expressing love complement each other quite nicely. We also both have a laid-back attitude toward life that lends itself to compromise when our interests don't coincide. We also have the same goals and a mutual dedication toward reaching those goals. We do have our disagreements, but the commitment we've made to each other's well being and the investments we've made in each other's lives always (eventually) overcome any conflicts that may arise.
NOTE: I used a width="100%" attribute in this opening table tag. It looks
fine on my computer, but I learned from the last table I posted that Windows
machines interpret things differently. Please let me know in the comments if
this table isn't appearing properly.
