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What a fun book to read! I have 3 grown married kids and 10 grandies and was focused the whole time on finding out if I could place them in one of the four temperaments listed below. I definitely found myself: Melancholy, and I found my husband...Choleric. They were 100% spot on!

Although this book was written by Catholics, and they say for Catholics, it's really about the four basic temperaments which we ALL have...not just Catholics. There is very little mentioned about the Catholic religion, mostly in the last chapter. All verses referenced are from the Holy Bible that you and I read. I am not Catholic and I thoroughly enjoyed finding out that my weird quirks are real and normal...for melancholics...and were instilled in me at birth.

Temperament is something you are born with and is separate from your personality (or your character), which is a product of your environment. You aren't completely locked into your temperament. It can be changed and reshaped over the years. You can strenghthen your weaknesses if you know where they are. Understanding your own temperament, and your spouses and your children and grandchildren...and accepting it...will help you communicate better with them. That's what this book is all about.

These four temperaments are used today by psychologists, educators and spiritual writers to categorize people. You can find other books on temperaments if you are thrown off by the word Catholic...but this is a good one. Here are the four temperaments and a brief description:

1. Choleric - passionate, quick to anger, make his opinions known, have a difficult time taking orders, leaders doing things their own way, can be overtly controlling, outspoken, argumentative, everyone else is less intelligent

2. Melancholy -
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