This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

On today's show, we're talking about personality types and compatibility in relationships

and why true compatibility might mean something different than you have been conditioned to believe

that it does. We're going to be talking about

how to create harmony, alignment, and appreciation in your relationships, not in spite of your

differences, but because of them. And I'm so pleased to introduce you to my new favorite band.

I cannot get enough of Night Beats.

This song, right wrong, I chose, because it relates to our topic about compatibility,

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Nightbeat's.bandcamp.com. They have upcoming tour dates, albums, all kinds of good stuff. Nightbeats.

So let's talk about personality type compatibility in relationships and why it is so important

to address this topic directly before it starts to cause trouble

in your relationship. When couples start to run into trouble or if relationships feel difficult,

many people are quick to go to the idea that it is a problem having to do with compatibility. If we were more

alike, if we were more on the same page, if we had a more similar worldview, our relationship

would feel easier. And sometimes that's true, right? You know, some chasms are wider than others. But at the same time, having a healthy

relationship is not about finding somebody who's just like you. It's about knowing how to build

bridges to the center and how to appreciate the partner that you have for who and what

they are. It is also true that compatibility, again, is not about sameness. It is about happy and

beneficial differences. Believe it or not, the strongest relationships are often not between two

people who are very similar. It's people who have compatible strengths, different strengths. Maybe

you're good at one thing, your partner's good at another, and between the two of you,

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