How do you experience interacting with an ISTJ mom being that you're an ENFP? You guys have opposite stackings, how does it work being that her Ne is her last priority but your number one?
Most of the time, we get along fine. She thinks I’m highly creative (I am) and a weirdo (also true) and too emotional, whereas most of the time, I respect her opinions and factual take on things.
Her inferior Ne is weak; she would rather throw the proverbial abstract baby out with the bath water than have to theorize or rethink something that holds no interest for her. Nonfiction authors who are too vague get tossed aside rapidly. She’s very, very literal, and easily fed up with anything intangible. She can’t see the point of it if it’s not applicable to real life; she did dive into the Enneagram for a little while, because it helped her understand her loved ones better, but easily moved on once she absorbed a few growth suggestions for herself.
Whenever she is around N types (her husband and both her kids), she wants to know how we know that, is there evidence for it, etc. Proof! Otherwise it’s made up and probably not true.
She is a decent proof-reader for me, because she will point out details I didn’t notice (you changed their eye color, you described this the same way in two different places, etc.) or point out the logical impossibility of the situation (if they were in an accident of that scale, even if they had magic, they would still be hurt a lot worse than you wrote, and you seem to have forgotten all about it a few hours later…).
Her strength is organization and coming up with little routines that work in our business so nobody forgets anything important, and mine is fixing things on the spot or coming up with how to make it work, since her methods are a lot more methodical than mine.