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Summary: Just Your Type
Review: In "Just Your Type," the Tiegers offer such amazingly accurate insights about relationships, that you'd swear they had their ears at your door. Not only do they perfectly capture the joys and frustrations in each "type" of relationship, they also offer each partner concrete advice on how to better reach their loved one. While this book is aimed at improving adult/romantic relationships, I've already used some of the tips in (successfully) dealing with my children. It's an excellent addition to the Tiegers' previous personality-application books on career fit, child rearing, and interpersonal communications. Bravo!
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Summary: "Just Your Type" is THE Personalized Relationship Guide
Review: In "Just Your Type," the Tiegers offer such amazingly accurate insights about relationships, that you'd swear they had their ears at your door. Not only do they perfectly capture the joys and frustrations in each "type" of relationship, they also offer each partner concrete advice on how to better reach their loved one. While this book is aimed at improving adult/romantic relationships, I've already used some of the tips in (successfully) dealing with my children. It's an excellent addition to the Tiegers' previous personality-application books on career fit, child rearing, and interpersonal communications. Bravo!
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Summary: Just Your Type
Review: Just Your Type, the newest book written by Paul D. and Barbara Barron-Tieger, is a wonderful addition to their growing list of helpful books applying Personality Type theory to our personal lives. As a marriage and family therapist, I have recommended all of their books to my clients, family and friends and received very positive feedback. I know that this newest book will be very helpful to many couples as they sort through relationship challenges. One of the important benefits of this approach is that it deepens understanding and awareness of human behavior, in a way that takes it out of a pathological framework. Further, the authors then give suggestions for alternative ways to respond to specific behaviors. I feel that it gives people a new, fresh perspective for looking at their problems, which then gives them hope for a solution. This is done in an easy to read, easy to understand style. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of their partner and their relationship.
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Summary: Just Your Type
Review: Just Your Type, the newest book written by Paul D. and Barbara Barron-Tieger, is a wonderful addition to their growing list of helpful books applying Personality Type theory to our personal lives. As a marriage and family therapist, I have recommended all of their books to my clients, family and friends and received very positive feedback. I know that this newest book will be very helpful to many couples as they sort through relationship challenges. One of the important benefits of this approach is that it deepens understanding and awareness of human behavior, in a way that takes it out of a pathological framework. Further, the authors then give suggestions for alternative ways to respond to specific behaviors. I feel that it gives people a new, fresh perspective for looking at their problems, which then gives them hope for a solution. This is done in an easy to read, easy to understand style. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of their partner and their relationship.
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Summary: Just Your Type,: Create the Relationship .......
Review: Most couples that fall in love expect to have the perfect relationship and live happily ever after. However, after a while reality sets in. What happened? Are you in that situation? Paul Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger have written a book just for you. Instead of describing the one model of a perfect relationship, they write about 136 different ones. Using personality theory based on the Jung/Myers Model of Personality Type, the book helps individuals and their partners decide which of the 16 personality types they are. Then the couple goes on to find their specific type combination from the possible 136 couple type pairings. After getting responses from over 2,500 people and using the results from over 1,000, the Tiegers found that gender was not a particularly significant factor in how couples get along. It confirmed their belief that men and women do not come from different planets, but they do have a wide variety of possible different personality types. The authors' research indicated that 91% of people indicated that good communication was the most important aspect to a successful relationship. Most people assume that everyone sees the world the same way they do. Personality theory explains that there are 16 different ways to view the world. When a couple realizes that each of them sees the world differently from the other, they are more willing to accept that their partner is not trying to be difficult and hard to get along with. They are just different. Even couples that have the same personality type are unique and see the world somewhat differently. This is a book that will open up a whole new way for couples to understand themselves and each other. Even if you are familiar with MBTI, here you'll find in one book are all the possible couple type combinations. You'll want to look up your own couple description. For most people it will provide very useful insights. It may be the beginning of a more effective relationship. ------------------------------------- Jack Falt (INFJ), a qualified MBTI facilitator, leads an ongoing group called Appreciating Differences in Ottawa, Canada. (jfalt@trytel.com)
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Summary: Just Your Type is right on!
Review: My partner and I are very much in love and very happy together. We share many of the same goals and values. But dispite our mutual love and respect, we kept getting stuck in arguements where we both felt attacked and frustrated. Whether the arguement was over how to spend the money or how to spend the day, it often ended in both of us feeling attacked and misunderstood. This book has given us the perspective to see each other's differences as just that - differences, and to stop the blaming and judging which, was part of our old way of relating. As an ENFJ I have been aware for quite some time that I am overly sensitive to criticism and have an almost desperate need to be understood in a loving and non-judgemental way. My INFJ partner has come to recognize, through type, some of his recognizable strengths and weaknesses and in doing so has been able to relate with me better and to see where his particular type comes into play, with how he reacts to situations. This book has helped us to move beyond blame and to realize how to treat each other with mutual respect for our different "type" charatiristics. We feel so much closer today because of this book, Thank you for bringing us closer.
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Summary: This book could change your relationship!
Review: There are many books out there on personality types. The test I took by these two amazing authors is so accurate, it scared me. Both my husband and I took the tests and then we had a good laugh. We had been telling each other some of the same things for years. Finally, this made us realize it was true. The fun part is finding out what action you can take to make your spouses life more enjoyable. I turned out to be an INFJ and he was a .....Ok, I won't tell. Anyone who knows me would say this is right on. You will also love "Do What You Are" by the same authors. It is one of the best sources to help you figure out what type of job you should be doing. Can you believe they said my husband should be in real estate and he is. Buy all the books you can from these authors. It may save you years of waisted time. Of course they said I should be a teacher or a holistic health practitioner or a career counselor - mmmm!
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Summary: Good information but too repetitive
Review: There was good information on how different types can have great relationships but I felt it was a bit repetitive. Also, the authors made one big mistake in the book. They claim boys and men have more options where actually it's women and girls who enjoy more flexibility to be themselves. A good example is children who play with toys associated with the opposite gender (ie, girls who like trucks and boys who play with dolls). Generally we don't worry about girls who like traditionally "boy" activities such as sports, trucks, or chemistry sets. However, if boys like to play with dolls or other "girl" toys we jump to all kinds of hysterical (and usually false) conclusions about how their masculinity will be hurt. Further, most public schools approve of traditionally female behavior more than of male behavior. Why do you think boys get punished more in schools than girls, usually for the same offense? Boys are also more likely to be shunned or harrassed by their peers for liking "girl" things more than girls who are "tomboys." Another example is the adult workforce. While it's true that certain occupations are dominated by one gender, women can be more easily found in traditionally male occupations than vice versa. In other words, you can find a woman doctor easier than a male nurse. Also, women have more leeway in how they can dress and act at work than men. Men are far more likely to be disciplined for politically incorrect behavior than women are. Don't believe me, well, I have real world experience as opposed to everything I read in books.
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