I have the day off tomorrow so I can visit Type C. Yay!
Okay, I'm getting to know an ENTP.
I really like this person.
I want a life-long friendship.
Tell me what you look for in a friend. What do you value?
Tell me how not to break my ENTP.
And thank you for taking the time to respond to me.
Ene, my dear friend! I'm not sure why you've recieved such weak responses so far, so I'll chime in. I started dating an ENTP 7 a couple of months ago, and it's been mostly wonderful. Important things of note:
1) he has said many times that being completely open and honest is his main desire/goal with me, that he has been prone to keeping his inner world at arms length from women in the past. I'm very glad he has learned this on his own, because I don't think there would be any pushing/convincing an ENTP to do so. My role in this, of course is to be equally open/honest (very natural for me, anyway) and to respond with understanding or grace when he is honest about hard things.
2) One of our larger conflict causes is Debate Mentality. He tends to slip into a need to argue, when I'm just trying to have a conversation, and often about minute details that don't really matter to me. We have had to learn the art of agreeing to disagree (which is hilarious because we actually agree on about 98% of everything in life-- that 2% is what I mean about debating about things that don't matter).
3) We are both rehash junkies. This can be amazing when it comes to savoring memories together or telling stories, but is kind of bad in conflict because we tend to review past arguments too...
We actually have agreed to not do that anymore.
4) Ideas and stories are fuel for both of us, and we are both naturally full of them. In that way, being ourselves is very successful in keeping each other intrigued and invested. Artifice or manufactured attempts at "entertaining" an ENTP would never work in my opinion, anyway. Another small note on this: we both love surprising each other, but he really doesn't like if a surprise it given away too early-- he really wants to savor the experience.
5) As you noted, we are both pretty independent (which is good), but underneath, we are also both pretty hopeless romantics. It's a very interesting combo, but also very balanced in some ways. I think this could differ with the Enneagram types involved (core and instincts), let me know if you might want some insight on what his might be!
That's a start anyway, I hope it helps!
