Sandra and Em share some Why Do They Do That moments and analyze:
- Why a listener’s ESFJ daughter has so many dramatic, emotional outbursts
- A Feeling parent’s difficulty with how her Thinking husband handles their fertility troubles
- The different ways Sandra’s kiddos approached a DIY class to make toys for their gerbils
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Full show notes:
This is a “Why Do They Do That” episode, where we analyze the strange, annoying or confusing things we or our family members do, using personality type.
You can send your “Why Do They Do That” moment to familypersonalitiespod@gmail.com
A listener writes in:
My 9 year old (ESFJ) is so emotional. She has huge outbursts and will run in her room and slam the door and cry at minor conflicts. Why does she react like this to seemingly small things?
- Sandra talks about the function that ESFJs drive with which is called Relational Feeling. It needs to express itself and if it doesn’t get the chance to do that regularly, it can erupt with overdramatic and seemingly irrational reactions
Emerson describes:
A friend who is going through fertility treatments and does not get the empathy she is seeking from her husband who deals with everything in a rational way. They talk about how hard it is to stretch from Thinking to Feeling and vice versa when you’re in the midst of stress and grief and how sometimes we need to find the people who are better able to supply the function that we need.
Sandra gets into:
How differently her kids approached an online class where they made toys for their gerbils. Ryker (INTJ) was very efficient and on task (Efficient Thinking) and had a clear vision for what he wanted his project to end up like (Insightful Intuition) where Ripley had a harder time choosing what she wanted the end result to be (Perceiving) but got really into the details of what she was doing and didn’t seem pressured at all to keep up with the pace of the class (Responsive Sensing)
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