Can't seem to match the energy of a good friend? You might be on opposite ends of the personality spectrum — and that's OK.

Extroverted introverts tend to prefer deep conversations with select people as opposed to surface-level conversations with lots of folks. Maskot via Getty Images You’ve probably been asked if you’re ...

Melissa Petro is a freelance writer who considers herself an extrovert. To combat loneliness, she works daily from a café near her children's school. She also leans on other writers and online ...

When we first started dating, my husband and I moved in together pretty quickly. He liked to invite friends over and party until early in the morning because he's an extrovert. As an introvert, I ...

I spend my summers on Cape Cod, where I go clamming with my friend Woody. I’m what you might call an extrovert and a very, shall we say, enthusiastic clammer. Every time I find a clam, I shout with ...

The classic labels of introvert and extrovert have long been used to explain why some people thrive off of social interaction and why some people prefer solitude. While neither one is “better” than ...

An extrovert, in the context of abuse, tends toward echoism. (In the Narcissus-Echo myth, Echo is a nymph who longs for Narcissus’s love and attention. Unfortunately for her, he is completely ...

Learning who introverts are – and who they are not – can be helpful in both building relationships and better understanding one another.

The book I wrote isn’t even about introversion. But the process dispelled any doubt about where I fall on the introvert/extrovert scale. My project was to collect childless and childfree wisdom from ...