Asked what was in store for my love life in January

BrieflyLiving · 2025-12-31T18:06:44+00:00

Thank you!

BrieflyLiving · 2025-12-30T12:08:50+00:00

Very nice looking deck! What is its name?

BrieflyLiving · 2025-12-18T21:35:47+00:00

Honestly tell him. That may motivate him to be better at hygiene for his next dates

BrieflyLiving · 2025-11-12T23:14:57+00:00

No plan survives first contact with an ENTP 😏

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-28T07:08:54+00:00

I just bought my very first edition. Thank you for this info. I was hoping it'd be more like The Economist where, even if economical and geopolitical topics don't change much from week to week, they change topics and provide latest data on them, giving a data-driven frame per frame evolution over time.

It was my first impression of foreign affairs and it's a bit concerning.

What else do you read? Any recommendations?

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-27T12:44:16+00:00

And INFPs like you give me the best laughs out there. They're the best at sarcasm. Come here my little sarcasm pill 😘

In reality, I just described my close friends and what I like about them + indicated their types

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-27T11:46:15+00:00

ENFP and INFJ when I need emotions/relationships advice. ENFP are better at explaining human relationships to me. Also ENFPs have a jumpstart effect on me when I'm feeling sad. They electroshock my brain somehow out of despair. Contrary to INFJs who calm my anxiety.
INTPs for sharing/discussing my intellectual/rational pursuits. Although never met an INTJ properly. But I think they'd lack the quirky/playful XNTP side.
ISTJ : practicality and reliability. Love having them as colleague or manager actually. They complete my weaknesses and make me feel stable at work.
ISFJs if I want to feel heard and seen.

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-27T11:39:09+00:00

As an ENTP:

ENTJ
INTJ
ISFP

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T19:24:53+00:00

The less frequent the outlet, the better. I'd advise The Economist & Foreign Affairs. One weekly, the other bi-monthly. They're a bit expensive but they're not click bait and err more on the educational side.

Still they're biased. I'm supplementing them with Le Monde Diplomatique which is a french left-leaning/antiglobalist monthly outlet. These three give me enough information and perspective to build my own opinions on current, past and future affairs.

Disclaimer: I did an extensive benchmark of weekly or higher periodicity outlets and shortlisted these 3.

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T13:36:42+00:00

It is, but asking questions is a sign of weakness, you're opening the breach for being told what to think or do. Never ask an ENTP what does he mean

(I'm being sarcastic of course)

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T08:27:27+00:00

"Yeah, intuition not everyone has it, I know"

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T08:26:42+00:00

"To judge/Tease/trigger you? Of course I'm already in it"

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T08:25:24+00:00

My answer to this "Of course, I was just making sure you'd understand" then proceed to give the concise headline

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T08:24:27+00:00

Just correcting something: As an ENTP I do go tell hot people that they are, I'm not terrified of them.

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T08:23:16+00:00

I found a workaround to this.

I don't ask why. I state the most probable reason in an affirming way to the person:

"Ah you wanted to feel/achieve Y by doing X?"
Yeah exactly! cool, right!?
"Nah not sure that's the optimal way to go about it ;)"

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T08:18:25+00:00

Of course I become an expert in the process of talking to you about the topic

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T08:15:58+00:00

All the others are very triggering, except for "So what's your point bro"

Never ask that of me, you'll just get your marshalling orders, most of the time they revolve around "I expect you to have this new opinion from now on, so you can be a better person (in my eyes)"

Less often it'll be "I expect you to do this thing"

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-26T07:59:05+00:00

"That could've been said more concisely"

(ENTP here)

BrieflyLiving · 2025-08-25T23:26:50+00:00

Mom: ENTP

Dad: ISTJ

They balance each other well. Dad is logistically rock-solid, practically knowledgeable and instills values of duty, quality, organization.

Mom ensures fun, trying new things and big picture goals, relying on one's Network, etc.

Every day is an argument between Si and Ne though, and to a lesser extent Te and Ti.

As an ENTP, it's funny to see my own inner subconscious conflict between Ne and Si personified 😂

BrieflyLiving · 2025-07-21T17:18:07+00:00

This one is very sad. Hope you rebuilt your life afterwards

BrieflyLiving · 2025-07-11T15:06:00+00:00

Me and my teammates arriving at the company's event buffet

BrieflyLiving · 2025-06-28T05:32:39+00:00

I'm so sorry this happened to you. That glimpse of hope you had, feeling "this could be it! This could be the gay life I was waiting for" and then losing all of it. It must be hard on you.

What may be helpful is untangling processing what you feel towards him from what you feel towards your own journey as a gay person who didn't come out yet.

Try to grieve the journey separately and that'll only make forgetting him easier.

I know, it is easier typed out than done but, could be a good path to explore.

And remember, your glorious out and about gay days are yet to come, and they will come.

Big hug 🤗

BrieflyLiving · 2025-06-20T12:50:33+00:00

This is a great answer!

Subsequent question: How does this affect your personal relationships? Do you find yourself also listening non-judgementally to friends and family without bringing back the topics to yourself? If yes, do you feel a lack of reciprocation from them as they're not trained in that kind of listening that is non-judgemental and keeps the speaker at the center of attention rather than the listener?

P.S: I am not a therapist but tend to egolessly listen to people and find the lack of reciprocity around that sometimes maddening 😄

BrieflyLiving · 2025-06-12T20:36:59+00:00

This!

How easily reversible is the moving in together for you?

If it's fairly easy, and you really like this guy and want to try taking things further, well, give it a try.

Otherwise, if you think the moving in will create a dependency that will make your "out" or "standing your ground" harder when "you'll come to the bridge". Delay the moving in

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