Warmth is the natural climate. Such a person is generous with praise, physically affectionate, quick to organise the birthday and remember the anniversary, and they cheer up a room without effort. The requirement underneath is straightforward and not shameful: they need to be chosen, noticed and told. A partner who feels love and does not express it will produce real suffering here, because assumed affection registers as no affection at all. Being taken for granted is the specific injury this nature cannot metabolise.
Pride operates at the level of instinct. Reprimanded in front of others, this person feels the humiliation in the body and remembers the room for years. The dignified response is usually a cool withdrawal, magnificent and unmistakable, followed at length by full-hearted reconciliation, since sustained coldness is uncomfortable for a nature this warm. Children, animals and anyone in need of championing bring out the best of it; there is genuine pleasure in making another person feel significant, and it is not calculated.
The costs are drama and dependence. Ordinary trouble gets narrated grandly, which erodes credit for the day the trouble is serious. Reassurance is needed frequently and can exhaust the people supplying it. There is also a tendency to arrange the emotional life so that this person occupies the centre, and to feel neglected on evenings devoted to somebody else's difficulty. From outside it can look like vanity. From inside it is usually the plain fear of not being loved enough to be mentioned.
What It Gives
- ◆openhearted affection
- ◆loyal championing of others
- ◆warmth that steadies a room
- ◆quick to forgive fully
What It Costs
- ◆need for constant reassurance
- ◆wounded pride
- ◆dramatising small troubles
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