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 […]
Jealousy
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 unforeseen happened and I came home […]
Defeating Jealousy
What is your reaction to the following situations: Your intimate partner spends increasingly more time in outside activities and hobbies in which you are not included. Your partner comments to you on how attractive another person is. At a party, your partner dances with someone you do not know. Someone flirts with your partner. Your […]