88 in a relationship

Same strategy: you understand each other deeply, but you also share the same blind spots.

Eights enjoy loud contact: laughing at the top of their lungs, full throttle, holding nothing back. All their lives people have told them to tone it down, and with another Eight they finally don't have to. From the outside, their relationship looks like an argument about to turn into a brawl. Often they're just trying to get the other's attention.

Long-term relationships between two Eights usually have one prominent Eight and another who is calmer, more reserved, or nurturing. An Eight in love looks completely different at home than at work: they reach out to people, comfort them, and like to take them out.

• Passion, energy, and intensity.
• Mutual respect for strength.
• Honesty and directness, no games.

• A struggle for control and power.
• Explosive conflicts that scare the people around them.
• Both find it hard to apologize and back down.

Eights go after winning, not after looking like winners. They're respected and feared. They naturally end up in charge because they can't stand being managed. Two Eights in a company almost certainly means a power struggle unless they're on the same side.