The Comprehensive INFP Survival Guide

by Heidi Priebe

Overall, the INTJ presents the INFP with the structure they’re seeking in their day-to-day lives, whereas the INFP serves as the INTJ’s soft (yet intelligent) spot to fall. Though this type combination is ideal in many ways, it is definitely not without its challenges. Potential Challenges: As a feeling-dominant type, the INFP may require more validation and affection than the INTJ feels comfortable giving out. As an auxiliary extroverted thinker, the INTJ may grow frustrated by the lack of structure that the INFP applies to his or her life. The INFP may grow frustrated by the emotional standoffishness of the INTJ, taking it as a personal insult when the INTJ does not want to share his or her feelings. The INTJ may grow frustrated by the INFP’s disregard for both timeliness and order in their external environment, particularly if they are sharing a living space. Each type may feel as though the other is attempting to subtly manipulate them–the INTJ may assume that the INFP is attempting to guilt them into opening up