NF Mating

NF approach mating quite differently from the other three temperaments.

NF Mating

NF are idealistic about choosing a mate. take up the romantic task of seeking the perfect mate and the ideal relationship looking for more than life partners in their mates

Yearning For Romance

NF are incurable romantics NF are concerned with meaningful possibilities, with romantic ideals.

Yearning For Romance

NF's have a keen appetite for romance "in love with love

Yearning For Romance

they want their relationships to be deep, meaningful, full of beauty, poetry, and sensitivity.

Yearning For Romance

NF have been known to romanticize their relationships, infusing them with a glow of perfection.

NF Courtship

NFs prefer to go out with one person at a time and to explore the potential for special closeness in each relationship.

NF Courtship

NFs will often look for a quiet corner where they can talk with their date on a more personal, intimate level.

NF Courtship

NF want to talk about abstract matters-ideas topics that break through social surfaces and connect two people heart to heart.

NF Courtship

the story suggests between the lines, the aesthetic or moral issues involved how the characters' lives symbolize their own experience or the wider experience of mankind.

NF Courtship

Finding the rare person with whom they can share their inner world is difficult for NF a painful process or trial and error often they vow not to date at all for periods of time rather than go through the search.

NF Courtship

Dating means more than physical fun or social experience an opening of their heart and mind to the other person

NF Married Life

both male and female NF are likely to be a source of continuing love, support, and understanding to their spouses.

NF Married Life

They are usually ready to lend sympathy to a mate when the outside world turns hostile They are reluctant to use that moment to point out the errors of a mate's ways

NF Married Life

NF often are experts in the arts of appreciation they are apt to be generous in expressing heartfelt approval of their loved ones.

NF Married Life

Perhaps NF are this sensitive to their mates because of their exceptional ability to introject or to empathize-to see the world through another's eyes. Of all the temperaments the NFs are the most empathic

NF Married Life

If their mates begin to seem weak and clinging-to appear to need more and more attention NF can become resentful of pressures to deliver what they had seemed to promise to their mates