[Nickel]

Romantically, I mean. What do you think - a perfect match, or an absolute disaster?

I have my own thoughts, but I will tell them after I get some responses. ;D

(Copied from my other post in the ISTP section. I want both sides of this. :P)

[Happy about Nothing.]

I think I may be able to provide for you some of the answers you seek.

Here. ----------->ENFJ's Four Most Compatible Type Relations

[Jawz]

An ISTP female?



XD

Seriously, I'm just kidding ..

I dunno .. I've never met one ... I wish I had though .. what are they like ?

[Nickel]

An ISTP female?

HA - yes. Basically.

I dunno .. I've never met one ... I wish I had though .. what are they like ?

Hm. Cool and closed off to most, but willing to open up if you earn their trust. Easygoing and funny. Difficult to describe. xD

[Jawz]

HA - yes. Basically.


Hm. Cool and closed off to most, but willing to open up if you earn their trust. Easygoing and funny. Difficult to describe. xD

Nope .. doesn't sound like anyone I've ever met. Though, it's not too hard for me to get a woman to open up to the point where she seems more like an E than an I [if she allows me to .. otherwise I just leave them alone after an attempt] ... hmmm ...

*pondering who might have been ISTP in my life*

Can't think of any ...

However, I don't go by MBTI when it comes to relationships at all ... I get along with everyone when I want to :)

[KC]

As far as my experience goes with them, they're quite easily manipulated by our "emotional manipulation" skills and they have quite a difficult time expressing their emotions in the most appropriate manner but if you're close enough with them, then it gets pretty easy to tell what they're thinking.

One of my favorite ENFJ abilities is recognition of similar and ever occurring patterns and no matter how much my ISTP bestie tries to be unpredictable, I will always know that he's up to something. They're pretty easy to read and convince but in some matters, they can really drive me up the wall.

The ones I know of aren't very outgoing and when I'm with them, they still like to keep it that way so you will feel as if you missed out on quite a lot of opportunities but you're Fe in the end will make you stop blaming your ISTP friend but rather internalize it instead.

Most of my friends are ISTPs and so far, they constitute to the biggest group I know in my circle of acquaintances. That means out of all the people I've typed or got them to do quizzes, the biggest group so far is the ISTPs, which then again, isn't really all that surprising, followed by ESFJs.

[Strappado]

I have many many good friends that are ISTPs. They're great people in general. That said, the few times I've tried to date them it was an absolute disaster.

[Nickel]

I have many many good friends that are ISTPs. They're great people in general. That said, the few times I've tried to date them it was an absolute disaster.

Aww. Might I inquire why?

[Jawz]

@Rapunzel ... I've been reading up on the ISTP descriptions yesterday since you posted the thread and learning as much about them as possible. [though I'm gonna stalk their relationship threads for a bit as well trying to learn from the horse's mouth]

There are many things in there that I would have trouble with [if I met a stereotypical ISTP i.e.] I won't state them for obvious reasons. But after reading the descriptions, I'm beginning to wonder why there's so much hooplah about the ENFJ / ISTP potential relationship. Adding more negativity to my own critical thought that MBTI fails as a match-maker.

TBH ... at the same time, the ISTP forum is my least frequented forums on PerC [I've only gone in there once in an ISTP/ENFJ thread] and I left rolling my eyes at just about everything that was posted there - made absolutely no sense to me at all. In fact, it was actually very hard for me to not get angry at some of what seemed like BS to me.

I just went "whatever" and walked out after just making one post.

Not that this affects my view of ISTP's at all. I'm sure they're wonderful people like everyone else :)

That said, I'm still trying to figure out if I've ever met an ISTP before :/ Because if what the description indicates about how their interests and mine would not likely match-up, then they're probably the girls I stayed away from growing up as I was inherently attracted to xSxJ's, xNTJ's and xNFx's more.

[Seeker]

Yup, as I stated in the thread Happy referenced, I think that they are at the very least a bad, bad, bad romantic type for me. Some other ENFJ's seem to agree. I can see how I might initially get drawn to one not knowing better. But I would wind up pretty hurt, and they would wind up runnin' from me.

I think they could maybe be friends. But that's it.