Type Eight with a Seven-wing (Erotic love doubled): In this subtype, the Eight’s power meets the Seven’s hedonism. Type Eights are not the blushing brides of the Enneagram and will likely only compete with Sevens as the most sexually proactive of the types (although the energy levels of an Eight is real, while a Type Seven is more about creating

Twos earn sex by being of service.

The Enneagram is divided into several different triads—groups of three types that have similar motivations or expressions. Along with our wings and points of stretch and release, our connection to other types in various triads is one of the reasons why we see ourselves in different types — and ultimately why we have the potential to encompass all

One of the ways a type can vary is through its wings—the

For powerful Eights this could involve fantasies about being submissive and weak, such as being tied up, not in control, or humiliated.

Above all else, they want to be desired and admired.

Love Type: Erotic (Countertype) Eights are one of the three Erotic subtypes, along with Sevens and Threes, where sex is about action, physical urges, and the self.

Maternal Love This is the approach to love used by motherly, helpful Twos, deep-feelings Fours, and nurturing Nines. Their

Arguably her greatest contribution to psychology was the naming of ten patterns or ways in which we get our instinctual needs met. These she later condensed into three groups: the Compliants, the Assertives, and the Withdrawns.8 For the purposes of this book I have used the terms Conditional, Advancing (towards others), or Retreating (from others)