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  Polyamory and Jealousy
Jealousy actually has three components to it, that all interact together to make up the experience that we refer to as jealousy.
However, if you only seek to find what triggers your jealousy and then stop at setting limits on the triggers for it, you're missing a huge opportunity to overcome jealousy itself, and even greater blessing to work through some of your insecurities that may be holding you back in other areas of your life.
Jealousy is something you can work on and don't have to accept as being a part of your experience, or something that controls you or your partners.
www.smoocherie.com /poly_jealousy.htm   (1886 words)

  
  Anxiety Zone - Jealousy
Jealousy is an emotion experienced by one who perceives that another person is giving something that s/he wants (typically attention, love, or affection) to a third party.
While the child's jealousy might be assuaged if she also received candy from the parent, such is typically not the case for a jealous lover, who wants the beloved to give some kinds of attention exclusively to him.
In mainstream society, although jealousy still carries connotations of insecurity, there is a greater tendency to accept it as a normal and expected reaction to a relationship threat.
www.anxietyzone.com /glossary/jealousy.html   (818 words)

  
 Jealousy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jealousy typically refers to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that occur when a person believes a valued relationship is being threatened by a rival.
The word jealousy stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), and from the Greek word for "ardour, zeal" (with a root connoting "to boil, ferment"; or "yeast").
Jealousy is the powerful complex of emotions experienced at the loss, real or imagined, of something or someone you believe is yours, whereas envy concerns what you don’t have and would like to possess.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jealousy   (928 words)

  
 Quoteland :: Search
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
A man’s jealousy is a social institution; a woman’s prostitution is an instinct.
Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses.
www.quoteland.com /search.asp?query=jealousy   (585 words)

  
 Dealing with Jealousy
English has "jealousy" and "envy," while German has "Eifersucht" and "Neid." The distinction between the two English terms is not precisely the same as that drawn between the two German words, and the Sanskrit and Tibetan do not correspond exactly to any of the terms in either language.
In English, one of the definitions of jealousy is "hostility toward someone believed to enjoy an advantage." It has only part of the Buddhist definition; it omits the factor of attachment to the area in which the other person has the advantage.
As we have seen, jealousy is the inability to bear someone else’s achievement in an area that we exaggerate the importance of, for instance his or her financial success.
www.berzinarchives.com /web/en/archives/sutra/level3_lojong_material/general/dealing_jealousy.html   (3788 words)

  
 Study links jealousy with aggression, low self-esteem
Parker and his colleagues evaluated nearly 500 fifth- through ninth-grade participants' self- and peer-reported jealousy to gain an understanding of teens' vulnerabilities to jealousy--an unstudied area, they say.
In another study, the researchers evaluated participants' reputations for jealousy by asking classmates to rate their peers' jealous behaviors.
"Jealousy is kind of a behavior, motivation and cognitive mix," Parker says.
www.apa.org /monitor/feb05/jealousy.html   (428 words)

  
 BBC - Relationships - Couples - Understanding jealousy
According to clinical psychologist Ayala Malach Pines, "jealousy is a complex reaction to a perceived threat to a valued relationship or to its quality".
Jealousy is a "complex reaction" because it involves such a wide range of emotions, thoughts and behaviours.
Occasional jealousy is natural and can keep a relationship alive, but when it becomes intense or irrational it can seriously damage a relationship.
www.bbc.co.uk /relationships/couples/heartaches_jealousy.shtml   (709 words)

  
 Zulluwth - The Spirit of Jealousy
Although Yahweh's jealousy is just and righteous, because he is just and righteous, jealousy within men mostly takes a turn for the worse, and in women it is always destructive, both to the woman and those around her.
Note also that the Law of Jealousies provided no revenge for the husband, but only for determining the guilt or innocence of the wife, and a judgment against her is the accusation of her proved to be true.
Similarly, this image of jealousy within the heart of the believer or the natural man provokes to jealousy in one's disposition and is part of the character of the man of sin, who SITS in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
home.sprynet.com /~jbwwhite/JEALOUSY.html   (8623 words)

  
 Jealousy - why it happens and how to overcome it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Jealousy can invade every relationship, whether it be with husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, brothers, sisters, mothers or fathers.
Dr Hauck believes that jealousy is a self-defeating emotion that can drive away the love we crave.
With the hope that some of these disasters can be averted through increased knowledge of the psychology of jealousy and possessiveness, I ask you to join me in the pages ahead.
www.mypharmacy.co.uk /health_books/books/j/jealousy.htm   (838 words)

  
 Jealousy
Combining elements of egoism, greed, sex, instinct and fear, jealousy forms a potent and poisonous cocktail that drains our energy, enslaves our inner world, harms our relationship, causes suspicion and mistrust, and is sometimes based on a misinterpretation.
In the grip of jealousy, we entirely forget that the true nature of love is to give and not to demand, to consider the loved one before ourselves, to be united with our loved one, and to share in our loved one's joy, even when that joy involves a third person.
To work with jealousy we need, as always with the difficult emotions, to recognize it for what it is, as it occurs.
www.innerfrontier.org /Practices/Jealousy.htm   (546 words)

  
 Reduce significant jealousy and envy between stepsiblings.
The "green-eyed monster" (jealousy or envy) is alive and well in the world, and in typical multi-home stepfamilies.
When major jealousy lives in your home, it brings blooms of discontent and resentment from one member's yearning for something possessed by another.
If the co-parents are skilled at resolving family role and relationship problems, the eventual outcome will be higher self esteems, stronger household and stepfamily bonds, and a decline in daily tensions.
sfhelp.org /Rx/sibs/jealousy.htm   (1989 words)

  
 Jealousy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Jealousy can be a sign that one is either not getting one's needs met or is afraid of not getting one's needs met, and should talk this over with the other person (/people) in the relationship.
Jealousy can also be a sign of possessiveness, in which case one should examine one's attitudes about a relationship as ownership of a person.
Jealousy is neither proof of love (as some people feel) nor proof of emotional immaturity (as some other people feel).
inkaboutit.homestead.com /Jealousy.html   (1937 words)

  
 What is Jealousy ?
Whatever is going on--whether the jealousy is "warranted" or not--fear is at the bottom of those feelings and there's a lot more going on than what is on the surface.
In their descriptions about their jealousy challenges, many people talk about "withdrawing," "getting quiet," "becoming numb," "saying things they didn't mean" and "lashing out." These behaviors are all ways to shield, protect and insulate themselves from the pain they are feeling inside themselves.
If jealousy is an issue in your life, we suggest that you try to understand your behavior and what's underneath it and then you can begin to take steps to heal it.
www.all-about-jealousy.com /whatisjealousy.html   (395 words)

  
 How to Handle Jealousy - WikiHow
Jealousy is usually a combination of fear and anger; a fear of losing something, and anger that someone is "moving in on" something that you feel belongs only to you.
Jealousy disappears when you are truly loving yourself and others for whatever experience you’re having.
If jealousy in your relationship is leading to control or power struggles, it's a sign that there is an underlying issue which needs to be addressed.
www.wikihow.com /Handle-Jealousy   (684 words)

  
 Jealousy Hurts
Her jealousy became more manageable because most of what was left was fear and she could express those feelings more easily to her partner.
As a result, her jealousy was resolved and she was able to overcome it.
Jealousy is about fear--fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of losing power or control in a relationship, fear of scarcity and of loss, and fear of abandonment.
www.romanceopedia.com /O-JealousyHurts.html   (908 words)

  
 Stop Being Jealous Treatment London Vancouver Dublin Birmingham Manchester Bristol Leeds Edinburgh Glasgow Hypnotherapy ...
For it is the imagination that causes these feelings of jealousy, when people visualise, for example, their partner with someone else.
Jealousy occasionally causes the person to be withdrawn and moody, but more often than not results in anger or even fury.
Often the person on the receiving end of jealousy is utterly surprised and bewildered by their partner's response.
www.justbewell.com /help_stop_jealousy_nlp_hypnotherapy_london.html   (588 words)

  
 Jealousy Quotes & Quotations compiled by GIGA
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.
www.giga-usa.com /quotes/topics/jealousy_t001.htm   (524 words)

  
 Jealousy ~ How To Overcome Jealousy and Stop being Jealous
If jealousy is an issue in your relationship or marriage, then you already know that jealous feelings and jealousy can be frustrating, annoying, painful and even embarrassing.
No More Jealousy is a breakthrough program we created to help people like you overcome jealousy from their relationships, marriages and lives as a whole.
They may be simple but they are quite powerful when used by someone who recognizes that jealousy is an issue in their relationship or marriage and they want to do something to stop it.
www.nomorejealousy.com   (676 words)

  
 Insane Jealousy
When a clinician meets with a case, he or she knows that a careful assessment of the situation and of the person’s mental state must be undertaken in order to understand the form the jealousy takes and whether or not it is symptomatic of a specific mental disorder.
Even lesser degrees of abnormality may cause severe suffering, and we know that some victims of pathological jealousy can become housebound because they are terrified of another accusation of infidelity if they go out from the house; others may attempt suicide because they have reached the end of their tether.
Abnormal jealousy is probably much commoner than we realize, but the victims do not complain in many cases out of embarrassment or fear, or--in some cases--ignorance of what is normal.
www.mindpub.com /insane.htm   (3216 words)

  
 Jealousy Quotes
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
www.worldofquotes.com /topic/Jealousy/1/index.html   (935 words)

  
 Jealousy and the Abyss
The rest of the fear around jealousy is in fact anxiety; that is to say, it does not have a real object.
Thus jealousy is not fundamentally a problem of relationship, not a problem of love, but a problem of religion.
Being and nothingness is ego and existence, jealousy and the abyss.
www.planetwaves.net /jealousy.html   (5651 words)

  
 Psychology Today: Romantic Jealousy
A woman who participated in one of my workshops said that jealousy was the most painful thing she had ever experienced: "I tried everything in an attempt to gain some control over it, but nothing works.
Jealousy is a reaction to a perceived threat--real or imagined--to a valued relationship or to its quality.
For example, at the heart of her jealousy triggered by seeing him get sweet to other women may be a need to feel special, to feel that you are his "one and only." At the heart of his anger at her suspicion may be a need for trust.
www.psychologytoday.com /articles/pto-19920301-000032.html   (4120 words)

  
 Delusional jealousy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Delusional jealousy or Othello syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that their spouse or sexual partner is being unfaithful.
Delusional jealousy can occur in both heterosexual and homosexual individuals although it is more often found in males than females.
One particularly interesting aspect of delusional jealousy is that the constant accusations and suspicion of infidelity from the delusional spouse has been reported to have driven some partners to actually have an affair.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delusional_jealousy   (366 words)

  
 Jealousy and Enviousness
Hence jealousy is the root cause of conflicts between individuals, groups, religions, communities, or countries.
Thus jealousy — along with fear, insecurity, and anger — in a way is a protective mechanism of the conditioned mind.
As we can see, the instinctive emotion such as jealousy is a deadly sin as it blights one's peace and throws him into hellish existence.
www.gurbani.org /webart7.htm   (1897 words)

  
 Jealousy - How to deal with it - For women - E-book - vitalcoaching.com
When it comes to unwanted or obsessive jealousy, the final challenge is about using your emotions in a different way.
If you know your jealousy is unjustified and you want to shift it to something more positive, you have to retrain your instinctual reaction.
Jealousy is simply your best shot at defending your mind territory.
vitalcoaching.com /dating/challenges/jealousy_how_to_deal_with_it.htm   (1168 words)

  
 American Scientist Online - The Evolution of Jealousy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
And it is deadly: Statistical studies rank jealousy as the third most common motive for murder.
Recently evolutionary psychologists proposed that jealousy is a specific innate module, a circuit in the brain that reflects the different selective pressures that acted on ancestral men and women.
Jealousy in women, in contrast, is triggered by suspicion of emotional betrayal: Women sense that their children’s survival might be threatened should a philandering mate divert resources to another women and her children.
www.americanscientist.org /template/AssetDetail/assetid/29664   (182 words)

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