When the negative letter N initializes a name that features the racy, randy, romantic, randy, and ravishing letter R, it invokes an image of a passionate person tempered by a conservative core. This is why the NR phoneme is responsible for so many zealous words with a veneer of controlling authority: anger, blunder, snarl, enrage, control, hunter, nervy, and snort. NRs are authoritative people with a strong paternal (or maternal) bent. It’s not that they don’t have a sense of humor mind you; it’s just that they’re so focused on getting the job done that they don’t have much time for life’s more genteel pleasures.
It’s hard to offend NRs -- but don’t think it’s because they aren’t smart enough to know when they’ve been insulted -- their skins are just too thick to take someone’s uninformed opinion to heart. They go about their lives with steady and purposeful airs, their feet planted firmly on the ground and their minds looking ten moves ahead. And if you want to see an NR in super-hero mode, wait until a loved one needs their assistance. Their extraordinary protectiveness has them recognized as the parental figures within their peer groups, so if you’re tired of single-handedly slaying life’s dragons, you’ll be relieved have an NR in your corner. Exciting? Maybe not. Dependable? To the core.
You’ll never have to worry about motivating these energetic souls. They’re the ones who have the day’s to-do list completed before the rest of us even get out of bed. The problem is that all this ‘doing’ can take precedence over ‘being’, which often proves a source of frustration for their mates. Still, there’ll be plenty of time for intimate conversation as long as you’re willing to join your NR friends on their hiking jaunts up Mt. Neverbeenclimbed.
As parents, it’s hard for NRs to abandon the notion that old-fashioned discipline is the best way to establish control. It’s not that they believe that dictatorial control is a means to an end, but if it worked for them when they were kids then dammit, it’s good enough for their children. These conservative characteristics are typical of personalities who find life relatively easy and don’t understand why other people seem to struggle so much. Still, they’ll be willing to concede that old ideas aren’t necessarily best, as long as you’re willing to concede that new ideas aren’t automatically better either. All things considered, NMs are the most protective parents anywhere. “All” they’ll ever ask from their children is to make them proud by living up to their expectations.
[AD PLACEHOLDER]
