Opposites Attract

The truth is opposites attract. People who are different from each other in fundamental ways often catch each other's attention.

We seem to be attracted to the very qualities we wished we had ourselves. A shy person looks for a mate who is outgoing and gregarious to provide a social circle, and the outgoing person may need to be with someone who won't compete with him for attention. It seems like the perfect match. Until those very differences we're attracted to start to drive us crazy.

But your differences don't have to drive you apart.

A marriage and family therapist for over 25 years, Renee Baron provides a practical program for couples -- learning to appreciate the ways your partner is different from you and finally stop trying to change them -- using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

The MBTI is the most widely used personality indicator in the world. People take it to help them determine their career path, US colleges' use it to pair roommates and corporate consulting firms utilize it to help colleagues work together as a team. By discovering your innate personality preferences and those of your partner, you can stop having the same fights and start appreciating the gifts each of you offer to the relationship.

'Opposites Attract' is based on one sure fact: everyone wants to be understood. By knowing yourself and your partner better, conflicts that inevitably arise in any relationship become easier to navigate, and eventually, cease to come up at all.