Character Compatibility is a different harmony between partners than an alignment of personality styles, or of polarity of masculinity and femininity. It goes far beyond shared interests, to be sure.  Since Phase 3 of Courtship - Teamwork, Partnership, and Commitment - are about aligning to be a successful team at getting to joint goals in intellectual attraction. Then the compatibility we are talking about must be about a joint encouragement [Read more...] about Character Compatibility

Like intellectual Bombast or physical Abdication, which are vices about sabotaging a partner's status at the cost of our own success, "faking it" behavior, or Charlatanry is a character "vice of deficit of Competence" that sees one as being the essence of "win/lose" or destructive in a way our grandmothers might have advised us to "not cut of your nose to spite your face." Only in this case, it [Read more...] about Charlatanry

Being chicanerous is a character "vice of deficit" stemming from what would otherwise be a character virtue in the form of honesty. It is not the same as lying, but rather of remaining silent and observant, "withholding the truth for the sake of advantage over others." It is intellectually narcissistic, which is to say that it contains either the intellectual narcissism of ignorance or prejudice. One may be ignorant of how [Read more...] about Chicanery