This happened with me and my ex-partner the extrovert.

Extroverts have a hard time understanding what an introvert needs. My wife is an extrovert. It took a few decades together with the aid of a few good books that helped her understand why I was so different from her. Opposites attract, but they can also destroy each other. I was fortunate that she ended up accepting that my way of being in the world was hard-wired into me…
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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Aug 16, 2023
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This happened with me and my ex-partner the extrovert. He never wanted to understand - he simply resented the difference, alas, and wanted me to be like him.
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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