How to love an introvert

It can be challenging to let your partner know you love them when the two of you have different basic personality types: misunderstandings can occur. Extroverts can feel introverts’ need for distance as rejection. Introverts can think extroverts are smothering or intrusive.

So here is a handy little checklist of five ways to love your favorite introvert. Oh, and for all of you who love extroverts, there’s one for you, too! Find out how to express your love to an introvert (or an extrovert) in a way that she or he will understand, here:

How to love an introvert

Attention: Show an awareness and loyalty that she will not interpret as scrutiny or intrusion.
Acceptance: Validate her need for distance without taking it as rejection.
Affection: Let her give the signal for closeness of any kind.
Appreciation: Express gratitude for and recognition of kindness, and a willingness to accommodate you.
Allowing: Respect her need to be alone until she asks for time together.

How to love an extrovert

Attention: Take frequent notice of and an active interest in what she is doing.
Acceptance: Show that you are on her side and at her side.
Affection: Be frequently demonstrative--physically and verbally--of your love.
Appreciation: Make frequent mention and on special occasions a special mention of your recognition.
Allowing: Join her and share in her interests in some way as often as possible

Tags: Dating, Introvert, Love

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Comments / Replies

Tani Says:
14 October, 2008 at 12:32 pm

Im currently in a relationship with an introvert. And we are so opposite. This is a first for me. Im out going, he's not. Im talkative, he's not. Im an open book, he's closed up. We get along very well though. For being an introvert, he likes to be around me all of the time, which is at times suffocating to me. He doesn't have many friends, and it seems as if I have become his life. I still hold on to my life, doing the things I did before we met, and he is happy to come along. The main struggle is, after 3 and 1/2 months, I feel I really don't know him. He seems elusive, and maybe out of my own insecurities, it has me feeling a little insecure about being with him. My life is open, and his is closed. I care for him deeply, but have my concerns. Is this normal? Normal to feel as if something is hidden? He's good to me, attentive, affectionate, supportive, and understands me for the most part. My question? How do I help him open up? He always tells me he loves me, but there's that apart of him, I don't know yet. Any advise would be appreciated.

Tia

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