Thank you, @erh.germany! I was recommended to visit your blog by @abigail-dantes and I followed it a week ago, but still didn't have the chance to leave a comment.

Good that you and your husband worked things out and accepted your different character traits as something positive and good for co-creation

It's an everyday struggle, though. People always brag about accepting and understanding the other one, but the truth is that it's an everyday effort. You try to understand and accept a certain behavior every single day and it is not an easy task. But who says that relationships are easy?

That's an inherent principle in the media driven world. One does not get very much attention by saying reasonable things or staying calm. It doesn't deliver excitement and is unfortunately mistaken as being boring.

I agree with you that media has to do a lot with it. But I think that our culture mistakenly takes hysteria for extraversion. I think that what media sells us to be "cool" and "normal", is just pure hysteria. And it is frightening.