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Originally Posted by Xander
I'm thinking that an ENFJ who's had problems with people in the past, especially a bloke, would tend more towards T-ish kind of thinking. Less empathy and more guarded like the ENTJ.
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From observation, rather than theory, I recount a female ENFJ and a male ENTJ. Each grew up in a dysfunctional family, receiving from their respective parents a combination of inconsistent support and scorn. The ENFJ showed reluctance towards introversion and had a ritualistically bad temper before, in her forties, identifying and rectifying her personal problems; the ENTJ, in his mid-fifties, has only begun to abandon his maladaptive behaviors, and can still be imperious and preclusive. Opposite sex notwithstanding, the two could not be confused, as ENFJs are nothing like ENTJs.