When Profoundly Gifted People Look for a Life Partner

Level Five (Profoundly Gifted)

Victor Schultz

Victor was an INTJ (Scientist) as a child and prefers INFJ (Protector, 1.2%). He has always seen himself as a straight male, didn’t ever date. However, he described how he met and married his wife:

Ashley was interested in me long before I noticed. I was slow on the uptake. But it worked out. We met when I was in graduate school and she was an undergrad. We’re the same age. We lived in the same dorm area and she’d figure out a way to talk to me and slowly but surely … it was good. We both have our PhDs now, work in the same basic field, and had a baby not too long ago.

Ross Oliver

Ross, who did not provide an MBTI®, gave this response to the romance and gender identity question in his mid-twenties:

It’s not really something that bothers me. I am still finding out who I am and am not looking for anything but friendships right now. One thing that’s nice — I don’t think it’s particularly because of intelligence but — I’m pretty comfortable with who I am. Relationships, ooh boy, where do I go? High school! One girl for almost a year or so. I had a relationship with a woman in college, and we agreed we didn’t actually have the same drives and goals as…