Melanie Martinez experiences her inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by her involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Her tendency to introversion inclines her to live inside herself, amid her inner world. She is apt to listen to her subjectivity, her intuition, and her secret opinions rather than reason and logic.

Melanie Martinez’s uppermost concern is her personal, subjective interest. Because the development of her personal identity requires great individual freedom of action, she tries to free herself from outer restraints and limitations. Psychologically self-centered, she remains fairly detached from the social world. She reduces such commitments to the strict minimum. Individualistic and egocentric, she derives her feelings of inner security from her ability to command her will and handle her personal involvements freely and openly.

Melanie Martinez is a realist. She approaches life pragmatically, and even her feelings are based on rational, tangible evidence. She bases her judgements on past experience and is prone to skepticism. A hard worker, she takes pride in her own endeavors and has a personal concept of her productivity. Her possessions help her assert herself as an individual and act as an antidote to any feelings of insecurity. As a result, material accomplishments may preoccupy her more than either love as a passion or intellectual or philosophical considerations. Nevertheless, she becomes attached to anything which offers her certainty.

Melanie Martinez works harder than others to understand other people’s feelings. But this seeming lack of empathy and compassion for others simply mirrors Martinez’s own difficulty in understanding Martinez’s own feelings and emotional needs. Martinez is not insensitive, but Martinez is baffled by Martinez’s own emotions. Martinez sees the emotional world as a foreign terrain, perhaps fraught with hidden dangers. Becoming familiar with it would present more drawbacks than advantages. As a result, Martinez may appear to be hard or aloof.

Martinez might struggle to establish a rewarding relationship, as Martinez seeks special individuals to bond with. If Martinez were able to accept and understand Martinez’s own emotions, Martinez would have an easier time grappling with other people’s feelings.

Martinez has a strong desire for emotional independence, and might have trouble seeing other people’s emotional needs. Martinez might even be the first to deny that such needs are real.

As a result, Martinez’s dependency on others is unconscious. Because it is seen as such a threat, it is repressed. Actually, although Martinez offers conscious resistance to anyone who tries to lure Martinez out of Martinez’s emotional bubble, Martinez is always making timid, half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because Martinez’s loneliness and fear are so unbearable.