Married INFJ women and men, would you like to share the dynamics/history of your relationship? What type is your wife/husband, and how do you think your types interplay to create a family?

My husband is INFJ. We met in World of Warcraft when we were both around 25. I moved halfway across the US to be with him. We moved in quickly, got engaged quickly and got married when we were 26, so we moved fast!

When we first got together, I was working full-time, and he was in graduate school. So I was the primary breadwinner for about two years. Then he graduated, so we both work full-time. We both wanted kids before we got married, and our max was two. I always knew that I would continue to work after having kids, and my husband also preferred that.

We don't have a lot of friends or a big social network. We tend to stay home on weekends. Before we had kids, we would play video games. Now with the kids, we do a lot of different things, like going to the park, doing photography, or just sitting around the house and being lazy. :)

We just "get" each other -- because we're both highly empathic and understand each other. Because we're both "ideas people," we can go on for a long time talking about a subject that we find fascinating. If one of us is really happy, we both get happy, and particularly with sexytimes it's pretty awesome. We trust and respect each other on a deep level, and we have a very intense chemistry and intimacy.

We are both very verbally and physically affectionate. We send each other little <3's and ILU's throughout the day. We cuddle every night. When I look into his eyes, my heart still skips a beat. When I snuggle into his arms, he feels just as amazing as the first time I touched him. I feel very safe and comforted when I'm with him.

We love harmony. Neither of us likes conflict, so we just don't do conflict. Even though we are both good at resolving fights, we try hard not to let it even get that far. We talk everything thing out.

Our emotions are in sync. My emotional state can easily affect his, and vice versa. We're both very empathic and sensitive, like two mind-emotion-readers together, so we try to keep ourselves balanced to help the other feel balanced. We understand each other very well, and we can really be there as support for each other in times of need.

If one of us is upset, the other one feels it very intensely. We both can get a bit needy/clingy. Since we like the same things a lot of times, we have to get two instead of one -- smartphones, gaming machines, etc. Otherwise we know one of us would get jealous of the new shiny tech toy. :P

We are very, for a lack of better word, monogamous. We both really crave/want/need intimacy, loyalty and a sense of "together forever." We see each other as our respective soulmate and "the one." When we hear about other couples having "celebrity crushes" or being flirtatious outside the relationship, we will often internally or verbally re-affirm the fact that we just would never do that.

We both need trust, honesty and open communication, need like plants need light and water. We are extremely open and honest with each other, accepting and appreciating each other's emotional vulnerability. We can be our wacky selves together and have lots of fun. We have a very harmonious relationship with our similar tastes in music, food, entertainment, as well as similar emotional maturity / self-respect / respect toward each other.

To summarize, we have a very intense, passionate but wonderful relationship. We both put our everything, mind, heart, body and soul, into this union.

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