Source: Daily OM – Johanna Lyman
What role does jealousy play in relationships? When someone expresses jealousy in public, it tells me they are deeply insecure. They don’t trust their partner, and they don’t have high self-esteem. It also tells me they don’t have an identity for themselves outside of the relationship.
David Schnarch, Ph.D., writes in his book Passionate Marriage, “Jealousy is a form of emotional fusion (for more on emotional fusion, refer to http://www.romancerecovery.com/blog/finding-your-self-in-relationships/). At its most severe, jealousy illustrates our intolerance for boundaries and separateness from those we love. Our desire to possess our partner is inherently frustrated by the immutable fact that we are two fundamentally separate people.” <<Read More>>
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