Stories about sanguines just like you
You are an active extravert, and nobody puts on a show, takes the stage, charms a room and leads it off towards a brighter future the way you do. ‘Public opinion’ and a heap of clichés have filed you away as one of those relentlessly upbeat, loud, good-natured people — and that is partly true, but only partly. Contact with others matters to you, because it is in contact with the world that you get to know yourself far better. Your smile, your resolve and your enthusiasm are disarming, and all the noise you can make for no particular reason draws the attention of the introverts around you and charges them up for good deeds and great achievements. You value beauty, self-expression, change and everything new; you are someone to admire and to imitate. You are surrounded by people; what sets you apart is a sense of style, brightness, visibility, sociability and a certain restlessness. You are not afraid to take a risk so that you can drink your champagne with pride afterwards. And you are not afraid of attention either — you know how to make an impression.
These are stories about sanguines just like you. About how they met their other halves, how the two of them complemented each other and what it was that hooked them. The way a relationship develops depends on our temperament and our character. Perhaps you will recognise yourself in the people in these stories and find something in common with your own relationship. And if you would like to know more about yourself (and, perhaps, about the partner who would suit you), there is a contact form at the end of every story.
Perfect relationships
These relationships are as ideal as it gets. They take a minimum of energy, time and emotion for sorting things out, settling scores and negotiating. The partners complement each other and give each other the kind of support that goes without saying — and the main thing: it costs them nothing.
Let us call this a maximally harmonious couple — a combination of personality types that calls for the least conscious work on the relationship.
Second-best marriage
These relationships are pretty good too! The personality types are compatible; only here you have to realise that about once a month the relationship will have to be built and kept up. That is, you have to do something you could otherwise have skipped entirely.
A second-best union is a union in which living well together takes the ability to reach agreement, or a certain set of ground rules.
So-so relationships
Two homebodies have shut themselves away at home. For a very long time. The thing is, one of them will have to leave the house and go out into society, that is, to take turns at not being themselves. And that is the puzzle facing couples like this...
Utopian marriage
Unions like this are almost never seen, and when they do come about, they develop with difficulty. A relationship is possible if both partners are emotionally balanced and each of them takes a turn at changing their role.
A utopian union is a union in which the relationship develops with great difficulty and friction, despite the formal compatibility of the types. Here it is easier to stay friends.
