The Melancholic Wife - Interview

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In this podcast episode, Gerhard and Jocelyne interview Marie-Rose Quenneville, a wife and mother of five. Marie-Rose gives us a greater insight as to what it looks like to be both a mother and a wife as a melancholic woman. Her secondary temperament is phlegmatic.

In today's episode we sit down with Marie-Rose Quenneville, mother of five, to talk about the Melancholic temperament and how she's used it to her advantage while raising a family. She also opens up on how she's grown and evolved her temperament over the course of her marriage and how adapting to parenthood has helped her refine her temperament and become a better mother, wife and person.

As we discuss in our podcast on the four temperaments, the melancholic temperament is generally introverted, sensitive, and detail-oriented. Temperament is the matter from which we can derive our personality—it is not considered something we can change, but it is something we can learn to balance and develop. There are mature and immature versions of every temperament. There are also temperament blends; the melancholic can be blended with either the choleric or the phlegmatic temperaments.

In this podcast, we discuss some elements of the melancholic personality and how they play out in day-to-day life. Here is the list of adjectives that we derived from Art and Laraine Bennett’s The Temperament God Gave You:

Melancholic

Attention to detail

Orderly, tidy

High-standards

Critical

Worry-wort

pessimistic

perfectionist

value truth

analytical

idealistic

cautious

motivated problem solver

judgmental

dwells on disappointments

complainer

low energy

introverted

stoic

faith-oriented

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