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Is it healthy to be jealous?

2023-03-28T10:49:15.489Z


PSYCHOLOGY - Jealousy reflects an attachment to another and a fear of losing it. An instinctive and normal reaction, which must however be tempered.


My boyfriend is super jealous and it's hell.

He checks everything, doesn't believe me, I don't dare to move anymore...

Séverine's testimony in the podcast L'espace du couple tells a story as banal as it is worrying: the close love of the first months gives way to routine , with sometimes the first doubts and suspicions… and jealousy that sets in, leading in the worst case to violence.

When it is excessive, it is dangerous.

But can we be in a relationship without ever feeling jealousy?

It's perfectly possible.

Some individuals know how to give their partner full and complete trust without being spurred on by fear ,

says Florentine d'Aulnois, couple therapist.

Nevertheless, jealousy remains a common and acceptable, even desirable (in small doses) feeling.

A compass that manifests both the attachment to the other and the fear of not having enough value to keep one's love.

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It's a healthy reaction as long as it...

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Source: lefigaro

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