The strength of any relationship is on the potency of its understanding ability. Many good and well meaning relationship have crashed overtime due to some flimsy reasons, which lack of understanding your partner temperament is one of such.
What Is Temperament?
It is believed that the temperament of an individual develops at an early age and doesn’t change. According to various studies, temperament is constant and becomes a torchbearer to how you act and react towards a situation. In fact, it also becomes your personality trait.
There are some character in humans that are static and can't be compel to align in your own direction of consideration no matter how hard you try to impose your view about them. It is who they are right from the grass root so knowing these features about your partner first and foremost and analysing if you can fit them into your account will do a great job in protecting your relationship.
A person’s temperament is developed by encountering new surroundings, situations and people they meet. Every experience is capable of altering the way we think and act and is a decisive factor in maintaining emotions, reactivity, and self-regulation.
If you are wondering which type of temperament you belong to, let us explore it below. Before that, let’s also have an idea about what is temperament after which we can slide towards its maintenance. Temperament is divided into 4 major types. Interestingly, these temperament styles were named under humor earlier and were believed to behave in particular ways.
Remember, some people can have a combination of temperament styles that define their personality style. Here are the most common types of temperament styles, check them out and find which one is yours.
Sanguine
The most common temperament style, it can be found in men and women equally. Sanguine are usually people-oriented, outgoing, extroverted, talkative, and social. They are also the ones who do good things to others and encourage them to work in a team. Some people could also be called ‘Super Sanguine’ as they are extremely talkative and may make others nervous.
Sanguine Traits
They are the most versatile human beings and are involved in any human activity possible. A wide range of emotions, behaviors like playfulness, easy-going nature, carefree, hopefulness, and pretty much content could be seen with people having sanguine temperaments. In fact, they are constantly active in their lifestyle, expressive, affectionate, and build positive relationships with people around them.
Although they build connections very quickly, their conversation tends to break easily if it goes boring. This attention span is a matter of interest. Moreover, whatever is in their mind is on their tongue without having any filter in between. Competition and domination are other characteristics with the motto of being accepted in any form.
Some special attributes: Sanguine temperament people can be impulsive, forgetful, distractible, and self-absorbed.
Phlegmatic
This type of temperament is also pretty common amongst people but interestingly, they can be called as the opposite of sanguine. People with such style are usually service-oriented, and introverted, but still, work but with others to achieve a common goal.
Phlegmatic Traits
Phlegmatics have a distinct set of characteristics and are easy-going, calm as well as unemotional. They are usually passive in nature which can be the reason for indecisiveness. However, they become usually happy if someone else is taking decisions for them. They do make friends easily but usually are slow in the beginning. What is best in them is their patient nature and good sticking closely to routine attitude.
Another way to identify people with phlegmatic temperament is their loyalty and capability to stick with people, no matter what anyone says. However, they usually don’t go back to the person if their trust is broken.
Some special attributes: Phlegmatic temperament personalities are slow responders, the opposite of sanguine temperament. They can be quite content with themselves, affectionate, and diplomatic, but they can also be shy, afraid of change, indecisive, not goal-oriented, and lazy.
Temperament is a set of personality traits that we are born with and can't change. There are basically four of these traits.
A sanguine (Optimistic)
A phlegmatic (Relaxed)
A melancholy (planners)
A choleric (Irritable)
Melancholy
People with a melancholic style can be considered as detail-oriented and quality cautious. Occasionally, they are also considered as depressed, but it is actually different from thought. They are usually searching for what is right and showing themselves right all the time, usually perfectionists.
Melancholy Traits
One can say that melancholics are rule followers and are frequently meticulous when going in an unfamiliar environment. If situations are pretty unfavorable, they can even become aggressive. Their factual and logical attitude, which lets them plan everything in advanced detail so that they don’t face any sort of anxiety.
Typically, they are someone who worries about the future beyond what's necessary, what others will think and forgets to live in the present moment. When in this temperament style, people are about to make decisions, they will gather as much information as possible so that they can make the right decisions. You can see their suspicious behavior and time taking behavior in trusting others.
Choleric
Let’s say, among the list of temperament styles, Choleric is the rarest one. And interestingly, females of this category are again most rare. Such people make ambitious goals and frequently stick with them. They are so driven to success that they constantly move forward without many breaks and face opposition with a strong mindset of winning.
Choleric Traits
Such people are extroverted, display strong self-confidence, hard workers, independent and have strong will power. They are very direct in communication and keep an assertive tone, sometimes to the extent of rudeness. Such people do not empathize with others, make limited friends, and are mostly dominant over others.
Some special attributes: Choleric temperament personalities are ruling and dominant type personalities who are ambitious, leader-like, pragmatic, and confident in their skin, but they can also be quite aggressive, impatient, low on empathy, argumentative, and intolerant of others at times. They tend to be independent, they see themselves as most important, they are confident in decision-making, they can be overbearing, they want to be in control, they are born leaders, they motivate and encourage.
One must find any of these in his/her partner. Identifying which is in your partner and marring the said with yours will help eventually. Temperament is just like genotype, when there is no appropriate merging, it will lead to misunderstanding and separation at last.
Notwithstanding every and any relationship needs
🔥 Adequate and appropriate communication
🔥 Patience, if it is the right connection
🔥 Spiritual exhibition rather than carnal denotation.
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