INTPness
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Good answers from everyone. Thanks.
Yeah, this is interesting. Those instances are remembered by your daughter only because she was SO CERTAIN in her own mind (probably 99.9% or 100% sure) that she would never hear the word come out of your mouth. So, it was a shock when it did. It's a doubled-edged sword for you INFP's. On one hand, you tend to behave yourselves and you have a moral code - and those are good things - and then people hold you in high esteem and have a high image of you and they even think, "Oh, he or she would never do that or they would never hurt me or betray my trust. I would bet my last dollar that they would never do anything hurtful." And then when it happens it's a complete shock.
If you're dealing with someone who has no moral code, then you learn that "they very well could do something hurtful". It's totally possible. But, with the INFP you tend to really, truly believe that they have near-perfect behavior because that's what they have exhibited.
This explains your halitosis.
My daughter and I had an interesting discussion last week about swearing .... since I rarely use the F word, she can remember the times very distinctly that I have. This annoys me because although I try to have 100% control, that word does sometimes come out. And not only that, my high level of self-control makes the times I do "slip up" very well remembered. So compounding the issue too is that I think our very attempts to live to a certain standard make it so much more evident when we do not.
Yeah, this is interesting. Those instances are remembered by your daughter only because she was SO CERTAIN in her own mind (probably 99.9% or 100% sure) that she would never hear the word come out of your mouth. So, it was a shock when it did. It's a doubled-edged sword for you INFP's. On one hand, you tend to behave yourselves and you have a moral code - and those are good things - and then people hold you in high esteem and have a high image of you and they even think, "Oh, he or she would never do that or they would never hurt me or betray my trust. I would bet my last dollar that they would never do anything hurtful." And then when it happens it's a complete shock.
If you're dealing with someone who has no moral code, then you learn that "they very well could do something hurtful". It's totally possible. But, with the INFP you tend to really, truly believe that they have near-perfect behavior because that's what they have exhibited.
I should floss my teeth every day. And I try to. Yet sometimes I forget, and sometimes I decide I just don't feel like it.
This explains your halitosis.