what personality type are your parents?

[supreme_nogi]

hmm...i got my mum to do the test and she ended up being an ENFJ... i'm wondering if she gave me the N and J and if my father gave me the I and T...i'll have to get him to do the test...

[Toby]

My father is an ISFJ, my mother an INFJ and my sister an ISTJ.

[The Rose]

hmm...i got my mum to do the test and she ended up being an ENFJ... i'm wondering if she gave me the N and J and if my father gave me the I and T...i'll have to get him to do the test...
father - ESTP
mother - ISTJ

[Wildflower]

Father - INTJ
Mother - ESFJ

[BlackHawk]

I'm pretty sure my mother is ESTJ
my father seems to be an xNTx
hard to be sure, though. neither has taken the test

[Paul V]

Father: ISTJ.
Mother: ENFJ.

[Hypomanic]

Mom -- ENTj
Sister -- INTp

Dad -- ISFp (I thinkk??)

[Henry]

Mom - ESFP
Dad - ESTP
Sister - ESFP
Sister 2 - ESFJ
Brother - ISFJ

[Hypomanic]

Mom - ESFP
Dad - ESTP
Sister - ESFP
Sister 2 - ESFJ
Brother - ISFJ

WOW. What's it like being the only iNtuitive?

[Tsuru]

Dad - INFJ
Mom - ESFJ
Sister: INTx

[Diana]

Yeah Henry, thats a lot of Es and SFs! man!...

Well, my dad's a confirmed INTJ [a software engineer - fitting!] and I suspect my mom to be an ESTx. She's one of the most skilled conversationalists I know. Although I find it most comfortable to act introvertedly, I think my mom's traits have afforded me a nice balance and know-how of how to be outgoing also. I do enjoy others and find myself being quite animated and jovial around some people, but eventually I always have to re-coop. (or is it re-cupe? as in recuperation.. re-cup? oh wow...that's not right!)

[Tarrick]

Recoup is what your looking for Diana.

I would say my dad was a ISTP...
And my mom is a INFx...probably P, but it's close.

Brothers:
ISFP
ISTP
????

Sisters:
ISTJ
?ESFJ?

[Diana]

Recoup is what your looking for Diana.



Ah ha...yes. Recoup. Much better.

[Ijz]

These are all guesses:
Dad - ISTJ
Mom - INFJ
Brother - INFP

[Wildflower]

And my mom is a INFx...probably P, but it's close.



For INFP Te develops deeper starting in the late 30s and I think may make the INFP seem more "J" but I think the difference between Fi and Fe tells the real story on it.

[Xenolar]

My mother, it seems, is either an ENFJ or an ENFP, more likely the former, though. My father, on the other hand, is either an INTJ or ISTP. Interestingly enough, unless the ISTP has a very obvious Ti, and the INTJ a very obvious Ni, then I often have a very hard time distinguishing ISTPs from INTJs.

[Gaius Baltar]

Father - ISTJ
Mother - ENFJ

This created a very difficult environment for my childhood. Although, I do see ISTJs and ENFJs keep cropping up in this thread, even if they're not paired directly together like in my case. Fascinating, really...

[Wildflower]

Father - ISTJ
Mother - ENFJ

This created a very difficult environment for my childhood. ...

My Mom (ESFJ) and Dad (INTJ) were actually quite peaceful and loving with each other, they really appreciated each other's opposite traits. They loved to laugh and cut up with each other and my Dad was always so much a lighter person at these times. He brought out a deeper intellectual side to her and they had many fine discussions, but she was never as open minded and mystical as he could get.

However I think my Dad's tendancy to need distancewas part of what drove her to be so out of control with us children when he was not around. She needed more emotional engagement. When he had emotional energy to give to her, they had something really special and meaningful but when he needed to recharge it was very hard on her because she needed more of it.

Watching an ESFJ and an INTJ have an argument can be really comical if one can be emotionally distant from it. INTJ makes one loaded statement...ESFJ rages dramatically and INTJ just sits and listens for a very long time with set face and defiant eyes while ESFJ burns themselves out and then finally as ESFJ is flagging INTJ stands up and makes a short to the point comment and leaves the room and goes to sit in another room. Never lasted more than a couple of hours, they never stayed mad at each other long.

[Henry]

WOW. What's it like being the only iNtuitive?

You mean being the only one who graduated from college? The only one who isn't a religious zealot? Who is capable of independent thinking? Who can discuss ideas without going crazy with emotional or traditional attachment to them? Who doesn't compare everyone to Hitler or Stalin when politics come up? Who reads new subjects and appreciates differing ideas? Its draining to discuss ideas with them because they don't care or have a nutty attachment to the idea...so I put on my SP hat and try to have a good time.

[Hypomanic]

You mean being the only one who graduated from college? The only one who isn't a religious zealot? Who is capable of independent thinking? Who can discuss ideas without going crazy with emotional or traditional attachment to them? Who doesn't compare everyone to Hitler or Stalin when politics come up? Who reads new subjects and appreciates differing ideas? Its draining to discuss ideas with them because they don't care or have a nutty attachment to the idea...so I put on my SP hat and try to have a good time.

I was hoping you'd respond. :thumbsup:

Wow.. I have to congratulate you on your success. The only one to graduate college, that's great! My house was always iNtuitive.. my dad was even the least 'S' of the sensing types (in my opinion)-- ISFp the artisan (a type of which I share my artistic skills/abilities with, and therefore somewhat understand). My mom is an ENTj and my sister is an INTp (the only two I live with). Needless to say, we are more revolutionary than traditional in all aspects of living. As another primary iNtuitive I am intrigued by your situation. I do think it would help you to better fit in with society though, I'm guessing (as you know what the norms are, I'm blind-sided).

[Henry]

I was hoping you'd respond. :thumbsup:

Wow.. I have to congratulate you on your success. The only one to graduate college, that's great! My house was always iNtuitive.. my dad was even the least 'S' of the sensing types (in my opinion)-- ISFp the artisan (a type of which I share my artistic skills/abilities with, and therefore somewhat understand). My mom is an ENTj and my sister is an INTp (the only two I live with).

Must be easy living for you, ENTj and INTp. Normally I find ENTJs difficult, but I would suspect that a lower case j makes things a lot easier.

Needless to say, we are more revolutionary than traditional in all aspects of living. As another primary iNtuitive I am intrigued by your situation. I do think it would help you to better fit in with society though, I'm guessing (as you know what the norms are, I'm blind-sided).

The only place I'm really concerened about fitting in is in between a woman's legs. :P

You are right however, it is important for me to behave traditionally during business hours because I'd be homeless otherwise and, well, its family. I would also strongly prefer, despite our differences, to get along reasonably well with my family, and "sit, kneel, stand" during holidays and on a phone call or two per month is probably the best way to do that. I guess my issue is balancing authenticity with this, as its not exactly in my nature to take or give orders.

[jnpl0011]

Mom - ISTJ
Dad - ISFP
Brother 1 - ESFP
Brother 2 - ISTP

Needless to say, I am the black sheep of the family. I cannot spend more than two or three days in their house without fighting with someone or otherwise insulting someone's mental faculties. :undecided:

What makes it worse is that I score 100% on the N every time I take the test... so I cannot even begin to relate to them.

[Henry]

Mom - ISTJ
Dad - ISFP
Brother 1 - ESFP
Brother 2 - ISTP

Needless to say, I am the black sheep of the family. I cannot spend more than two or three days in their house without fighting with someone or otherwise insulting someone's mental faculties. :undecided:

What makes it worse is that I score 100% on the N every time I take the test... so I cannot even begin to relate to them.

Virtually identical, except I try my best not to make personal comments to my family (largely because I pity their logical-mathematical intelligences and envy their interpsonal or self control abilities, but whatever).

I too am almost completely intuitive. I use sensing when it helps me achieve my goals, and that's about it.

Can I ask if you were raised in a very religious family?

[Epicurus]

I would guess that my dad is atleast an IN** INFJ maybe. My mom well shes like an ISFJ or perhaps an ISFP.

[Hypomanic]

Must be easy living for you, ENTj and INTp. Normally I find ENTJs difficult, but I would suspect that a lower case j makes things a lot easier.

Actually my reasoning behind making the last functions lower-cased is that they are not a part of Carl Jung's theory. That's all. She says she isn't much J, however I suspect the opposite may be true. We've had our differences in my younger teenage years, but now I respect her. It's great having a field marshal for a mom (if you're a P anyway). She is an outstanding member of society and I attribute many of my good traits to her.

[Urchin]

NOTE: I'm an INTP, not an INTJ.

Father: INTJ
Mother: ESFJ

My mother could conceivably be an ENFJ. She's a mathematician, which would make me think she is more abstract, but she acts like an ESFJ. She's very practical and cares a lot about tradition and social niceties. She really doesn't have the temperment of an NF. Much more that of an SJ.

[Jenny Penny]

My dad: INTJ; Mom: ISTJ... No wonder they got divorced!

[bibliophile]

Mom: ISxJ (F within the family, T outside it)
Dad: ESTJ

Brother 1: ESTP
Brother 2: ExTx

None of us get on well with people whose feelings have to be carefully considered and we all have a tendency to use our intelligence and logic like weapons and not care terribly about the fate of our victims.

I was raised in a very S environment and I've slowly become (or acknowldeged) more N during college.

[jnpl0011]

Virtually identical, except I try my best not to make personal comments to my family (largely because I pity their logical-mathematical intelligences and envy their interpsonal or self control abilities, but whatever).

I too am almost completely intuitive. I use sensing when it helps me achieve my goals, and that's about it.

Can I ask if you were raised in a very religious family?

My family is decidedly non-religious. In name, they are Lutheran, but that doesn't really mean anything. I am the only religious person in my family and only after many years of thought and atheism. If they had been religious, I probably would not be. That is to say, if it had been shoved down my throat, I would have rebelled against it. Thankfully, I was allowed to find it on my own.

[Amaranth]

My father and older sister are ENTPs. They've made quite a mess of their lives, taking several other people down with them.

I have no idea what my mother is; my best guess is SF. Her behavior's been so filtered through circumstances and she's such a closed book that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to tell.

[Meyer]

Father-EntP
Mother-INTp

[Allie]

Scary, Mine:

Dad=INTJ
Mom=ESFJ?

[Hypomanic]

Father-EntP
Mother-INTp

LMAO good mix :D
I bet your house is chaos.
Am I right?

[Meyer]

I was hoping you'd respond. :thumbsup:

Wow.. I have to congratulate you on your success. The only one to graduate college, that's great! My house was always iNtuitive.. my dad was even the least 'S' of the sensing types (in my opinion)-- ISFp the artisan (a type of which I share my artistic skills/abilities with, and therefore somewhat understand). My mom is an ENTj and my sister is an INTp (the only two I live with). Needless to say, we are more revolutionary than traditional in all aspects of living. As another primary iNtuitive I am intrigued by your situation. I do think it would help you to better fit in with society though, I'm guessing (as you know what the norms are, I'm blind-sided).

I agree with your point. I would have sworn that my family was dominating the sensory side of things. They all test though as ntps. While I cannot speak to the tests validity for determining dominate functions, I think it does show they at least have the propensity for intuitive thinking. Despite this, I still felt like a stranger in a strange land. Hats off to you Henry.

[melon]

Mom - ISFJ
Dad - ISTJ
Sister - ESFP
Brother - INFJ
Me - INTJ

My sister is extremely social and...loud, my mom is very traditional-minded, and my dad is an evangelical Christian pastor (needless to say, also very traditional). >_< I get along with my brother by far the best, but he doesn't live at home anymore. I don't bother getting into debates with anyone in my family because I know that they'll base their arguments on either tradition, feeling, or an extremely literal interpretation of the Bible. I do get into small debates with my brother though, but because he's an NF, they aren't so much debates as they are discussions of things that we both agree on. :p

[Rei]

Can't we just add a poll?
It's so much easier to see if there is any significance.

Dad: ISFJ
Mother: INTX

[Meyer]

LMAO good mix :D
I bet your house is chaos.
Am I right?

I can remember one of my biggest frustrations as a child was the messiness and disorganization of the house. It used to literally make my insides burn.

[Question Everything]

Mother - INFJ. No clue about father, who was not really a part of my life.

[Snowdragon]

Father-ISTJ
Mother-ISFx.

[EsoteriEccentri]

Mother - ENFP
Father - Guessing at INTP.

[azelismia]

mom isfp
dad impossible to tell. he was/is as mad as a hatter.

[Motor Jax]

ok, i'll try

mom= ENFP

dad= ISTJ

why they got divorced when i was 5? age difference

him 39, her 24

[Diamond8INTJ]

dad ENTJ
mom INFx

they divorced when i was 10, my assumption is mid life crises, both couldn't handle each other anymore too after about 2 or 3 years of problems ...

;D

[Erika Redmark]

I'd type my mom as ISTJ–she's very traditional, sort of socially conservative. I have a few SJ-like traits, which I must have picked up from her, since I notice that she does the same things (and it's a good bet that she did them first). And I get the feeling that ISTJ's in general seem to care more about social conventions than INTJ's, which is definitely true of my mom and me. Because she's not shy like as I am, my mom thinks I'm completely socially retarded and need to be told things about how to behave that are actually completely obvious. :rolleyes: This may stem from an incident that occurred when I was…maybe four years old. When no kid is perfect in every situation. (I could sit through a concert when I was two.)

I'd say my dad is INTP–he definitely fits the "egghead" stereotype. :cheesy: The typelogic page says they're into words and language, and he has that as well (although that's also very true of me, that's one of my favourite "systems"). I read that a big difference between INTP's and INTJ's is that INTP's second-guess themselves a lot. From what I know of my dad when he was younger, this is probably true. (I know when to get out, as it were, when I'm not succeeding in something, but I'm not constantly worrying about failure…)

Perhaps interestingly, perhaps not, my dad has figured out computers and my mom has not. (She can't figure out the Word UI by herself, for example, and she's always asking me to do something for her :laugh: )

I also have a little brother, who is extroverted and a feeler (which is kind of interesting). My best guess would be ENFP or maybe ESFP.

[Rhiannon]

Mother: INTJ

Father: ESTX *shivers*

[Freedom2009]

Both me and my dad are INTx
Mom - ESFJ

[dori]

my dad did the test really quick and came out istj, with a very low s.
we get on really well.
my mum is dead... so, what do you think she could have been? very intelligent, emotional, but only when it involved her directly, anybody else it and was tough! not very touchy feely, unless as above she was feeling emotional.

[Serket]

Mum: ENFJ
Brother ENTJ (used to test as ESTJ but whatever)
Dad: xSTJ (?)

[Genuine]

Mom: ENFJ
Dad:XSTJ

[Mafiaangel180]

Dad-estp
Mom-isfp
sister1-isfp (guess)
sister2-entp/intp (guess)
brother- enfp (guess)

I usually get along better with female T's than F's, so my sister2 and I are pretty close.

[Antares]

Father: Unknown. I've given up trying to type him and he wouldn't take the test. I'm quite certain that he's I now. Can't tell between N or S. Probably N, because messiness, as it irks most S's, doesn't bother him. I'd say borderline T and P. So INTP. Wouldn't be surprised if he was ISTP though.

Mother: ISFJ. Tested. Fits her completely.

[White Raven]

My mom is an ISFJ. [Oy. I love her. But yeah. Thank God she isn't an ISTJ. We'd kill eachother.]
My dad is an INTJ, which is nice. I relate to him intellectually far better than I relate to my mom.
Sister 1-ENFP. Xl
Sister 2-ExTJ. I get along with her far better than my ENFP sister. I'm guessing she's an iNtuitive, but I'm not positive.
Brother 1-ESFP. We have some good times, actually. And then sometimes...:P
Brother 2-ISTP, guessing. I think that's what he is.

How did my parents end up with so many E's...? XD

[enfpchick]

My family MBTi family tree

Mom: ESFP, she just "gets" me and pushes me to have fun

Dad: ISFJ, we hardly get along. He's almost my polar opposite. I just don't get him and vice versa.

Brother: ENTP, i love him so much but he talks too much he sometimes keeps me grounded.

Aunt: INTP, she is my best friend, and i can tell her anything.When I come up with random ideas, as ENFPs do, she just helps me sort through it. She keeps me focused and i think she knows me better than anyone else.

[Roy G Biv]

Mom = ESFJ
Dad = INFJ
Brother = not sure (ExFP maybe)

[onlyparallel]

Mother-INFJ
fATHER-INTJ

[Aronnax]

Mother- ENFP
Father- ENTJ
Sister- ESFJ

[enfpchick]

Mother- ENFP
Father- ENTJ
Sister- ESFJ

What is like to have an ENFP mother???

[Mozzes]

Mother is probably ISFP, father is probably ISTJ, but maybe ESTJ.

Youngest brother is probably ISTP, second youngest brother is definitely ESFP, and my older brother is definitely ESTJ.

Interestingly I get along with my older brother and father the best, though my brother is a bit of a racist so if conversations stray too far from sports and movies I inevitably end up face palming in exasperation at some of the stuff he says.

[Aronnax]

What is like to have an ENFP mother???


Everybody loves my mom, she's easy to get along with and is nice to everyone. She's very supportive and puts a lot of effort into helping other people. She has some issues with boundaries, if you don't make them clear she'll ignore them. She kind of "melts" if you criticize her about something she's done recently. In order to communicate about a negative behavior you have to let some time go by and frame it diplomatically and even then she gets hurt.

[pensivemuse7]

Mother: ISFP
Father: ISTP
Brother: ENTJ

Sometimes I think that my brother and I are more of the parents in the household....

[Blendy]

Mother: ISFJ
Father: ESTJ
Brother: ISTJ

I am the lone N in a family of SJ's.