ISFP Relationships- Core Elements
The core elements of love and a healthy relationship are trust, respect, attraction, and investment. According to TypeMatch Relationship Dynamics, here is how those elements align for ISFPs:
Trust:
ISFPs trust those that are genuinely caring and empathetic. They trust those that appreciate the depth of the ISFP and share their values. They like those that they can see work to make others happy and feel good. ISFPs distrust those that they feel are selfish, start unnecessary arguments, and create social disharmony.
Respect:
ISFPs respect those who have had hard life experiences that they’ve learned and grown from. They respect experience above all and don’t respect those that talk a big game but don’t have any real-life experience to back it up. Likewise, ISFPs like when others show respect for them by asking the ISFP to share their expertise and way of doing things with them. They lose respect for those that they see as incompetent and try to impose their incorrect ways on others.
Attraction:
ISFPs are immediately attracted to those that help the ISFP think about the future and what things could be. They are attracted to those that don’t try to tie them down and always give them plenty of options to help them decide what they want to do. ISFPs like to be given their space and freedom to come to you when they’re ready. They become easily annoyed when forced to do something that makes no sense to them and not given the option to decide for themselves.
Investment:
When an ISFP decides they want to be with someone, they invest in the relationship by trusting the other person to act as a representative of themselves and entrusting the other person with their reputation. They also invest by giving great consideration to what the other person thinks. They do their best to set aside their own feelings and be objective and show respect for the other person’s point of view. As a result, if a breakup happens an ISFP may feel that everything they thought they knew was true is gone. If the ISFP decides to move on, they will feel as if the person isn’t who they thought they were.