SAME WORDS, DIFFERENT LANGUAGES: Jung's psychological types and relationships

Everyone experiences and interprets the world differently. Two people can experience the same event and have two diametrically opposite experiences of that event. The reality of their different experiences needs to be appreciated as being equally valid.

In truth, they are equally valid. The difficulty arises when one person judges the other’s experience as being “wrong.” When this happens, any effort at communicating with one another shuts down. Such judgments only promote defensiveness between two individuals.