How Your Personality Affects Relationships

Personality Type and Relationship Success

How your personality affects relationships
and how to overcome self-limitations

We all know that different people have different personality types. But how many different types are there? What are they? And how do they effect our relationships?

According to the most useful system we have encountered — it's called the "Enneagram" — there are nine basic personality archetypes. We all have some of each archetype within us. But we tend to concentrate most of our energy in just one type, or a couple of types.

Below, we will briefly examine the nine archetypes in the Enneagram system of personality profiling, and the expected problems each type will have in love and relationships. We will also describe how each type can personally grow to overcome any of their self-limiting beliefs.

As you read through these different types, you may get a sense of where you fit — or you may not clearly see it. The Enneagram is a robustly rich and complex system. And we each have a little of all types. Our presentation below is just a start.

posted by Robert Heard at 9:19 AM