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The idea that the sustainability of personal relationships depends on the 'personalities' of the parties has a long history. While it leaves aside some fundamental considerations in relationships such as marriage - economic circumstances, physical attraction to name but two - personality seems to capture many of the multiple reasons why two people may find themselves in basic harmony, constant tension, or anything in between. Among the many attempts to analyse personality the Enneagram group have developed a sophisticated system leading to complex interpretations based on the Enneagram structure and multiple supplementary sub-systems . This Annalisa merely picks out the 9 basic types they identify (we all have one dominant character but more or less of all the others) and suggests how a hypothetical couple might perceive themselves and the other on these and how differences in both their  Ratings and weightings could help explain how well they relate. It in no way purports to be relevant to an Enneagram analysis
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The Reformer: principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic [Instinctive: core loss emotion Anger]
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The Helper: demonstrative, generous, people-pleasing, and possessive [Feeling: core loss emotion Shame]
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The Achiever: adaptive, excelling , driven, and image-conscious [Feeling: core loss emotion Shame]
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The Individualist: expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, and temperamental [Feeling: core loss emotion Shame]
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The Investigator: perceptive, innovative, secretive, and isolated [Thinking: core loss emotion Anxiety]
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The Loyalist: engaging, responsible, anxious, and suspicious [Thinking: core loss emotion Anxiety]
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The Enthusiast: spontaneous, versatile, distractible and scattered [Thinking: core loss emotion Anxiety]
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The Challenger: self-confident, decisive, willful, and confrontational [Instinctive: core loss emotion Anger]
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The Peacemaker: receptive, reassuring, agreeable, and complacent [Instinctive: core loss emotion Anger]
Self and Other Characterisations by couple A and B Meaningful only in pairwise comparisons. In this case with equal weights B's perception of A shows a bigger discrepancy with A's self perception, than A's perception of B does with B's self-perception Gallery contains the Enneagram pictorial characterisations of the 9 types as well as the Enneagram itself and the Triad structure
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