Jealousy

Do you suspect that your partner is secretly seeing someone else?   That someone may be chasing after him/her?  That your partner may be attracted to someone else?  That s/he may be physically or emotionally intimate with another person behind your back?   That s/he has a weak spot for other men/women?

Jealousy is an emotion that keeps you from feeling love, but also keeps you from falling out of love.

Dear Neil: I used to be a very jealous wife, and am happy to tell you that I have changed. My jealousy and fits of rage were rooted in insecurity. Partly, I have baggage because my father was disloyal to my mother. Partly, it was that I was bashful and quiet, and my husband is outgoing and charismatic. But I got tired of feeling angry all the time, decided it was not changing anything for the better and looked inward for some answers. I developed hobbies and friendships. I refused jealous thoughts and behaviors.

Jealousy is an emotion that keeps you from falling out of love, while at the same time it keeps you from feeling love. It keeps you emotionally bound to and dependent upon the person you love.

In the range of human emotions, jealousy strikes primal. Cain, son of Adam in the Bible, slew his brother out of jealous voluntary.

Jealousy can be a normal and appropriate emotion. Humans naturally mate, and they naturally guard their partnership through the mechanism of jealousy.

Jealousy develops as we sense that our partner is no longer as closely connected to us as we'd like. It may signal that something else--or someone else--has come between us and is loosening our bonds.

Dear Neil: My husband of 12 years is very jealous. Whenever I try and go out with my friends, he becomes upset and causes a fight. I usually come home when I say I will, and I do not come inebriated or such. On one or two occasions something unforseen happened and I came home late. He got in a rage. He is not physically abusive, but is very verbally and emotionally abusive

What is your reaction to the following situations:

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