Stories about sanguines just like you
You are an active extravert, and no one is better at putting on a show, stepping onto the stage, charming people and leading them towards a bright future. "Public opinion" and a whole set of clichés have written you down as an endlessly positive, loud, good-natured soul, and in part that is true — but only in part. Communication matters to you, because it is in communicating 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 follow. You are surrounded by lots of people, and what sets you apart is style, brightness, visibility, sociability and a certain restlessness. You are not afraid to take a risk so that you can proudly drink champagne afterwards. And you are not afraid of attention, and you know how to make an impression.
These stories are about sanguines just like you. About how they met their other halves, how they complemented one another and what it was that drew them together. 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 you share with your own relationship. And if you would like to know more about yourself (and, perhaps, about the partner who suits you), at the end of every story there is a form to get in touch with us.
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.
