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  2. Jealousy - Wikipedia

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    Jealousy can consist of one or more emotions such as anger, resentment, inadequacy, helplessness or disgust. In its original meaning, jealousy is distinct from envy, though the two terms have popularly become synonymous in the English language, with jealousy now also taking on the definition originally used for envy alone. These two emotions ...

  3. Social aspects of jealousy - Wikipedia

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    By the late 1960s and the 1970s, jealousy — particularly sexual jealousy — had come to be seen as both irrational and shameful in some quarters, particularly among advocates of free love. [5] Advocates and practitioners of non-exclusive sexual relationships, believing that they ought not to be jealous, sought to banish or deny jealous ...

  4. Can jealousy ever be good for your relationship? - AOL

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    By ISABELLE CHAPMAN Can jealousy be a good thing? CafeMom's Andrew Shue had some burning questions about the green monster of envy: Why does it happen? Can it be healthy -- even crucial to a ...

  5. Envy - Wikipedia

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    Envy is an emotion which occurs when a person lacks another's quality, skill, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it. [1] Envy can also refer to the wish for another person to lack something one already possesses so as to remove the equality of possession between both parties.

  6. What Is Compersion? Therapists Break Down the Opposite of ...

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    An Example of How to Turn Jealousy into Compersion Here’s an example of what that might look like: Let’s say that you go to a party and your partner spends the evening working the room and ...

  7. Delusional disorder - Wikipedia

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    For example, in delusional jealousy, where a person believes that the partner is being unfaithful (in extreme cases perhaps going so far as to follow the partner into the bathroom, believing the other to be seeing a lover even during the briefest of separations), it may actually be true that the partner is having sexual relations with another ...

  8. Narcissistic injury - Wikipedia

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    Narcissists lack self confidence, which projects on to relationships. Jealousy roots in neurotic insecurity. Examples of possessiveness include jealousy of a person's attention being taken away by another, and thoughts of worry that someone will take one's partner away. Their high sense of possessiveness root from a high degree of jealousy.

  9. Pathological jealousy - Wikipedia

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    Pathological jealousy, also known as morbid jealousy, Othello syndrome, or delusional jealousy, is a psychological disorder in which a person is preoccupied with the thought that their spouse or romantic partner is being unfaithful without having any real or legitimate proof, [1] along with socially unacceptable or abnormal behaviour related to these thoughts. [1]