What makes people jealous ?
People feel jealous when they lose, or fear they are going to lose, someone they love to another person. Jealousy always involves a triangle. The fear of losing a loved person’s love may be based on real factors or it may be based on imagination or exaggeration. This distinction is very important: It accounts for the difference between normal as against pathological jealousy. Thus, a man tormented by jealousy because of the behavior of his wife with another man is in quite another position from a man who has persuaded himself that his wife is having an affair – when there is no real ground for this fantasy. The first man may need comfort and advice; the second man can only be helped by psychiatric treatment. Some people create situations, unconsciously, which will make them jealous. Thus, a jealous wife or husband may insist on taking the spouse to a party where firtations contacts are likely. What is the difference between jealousy and envy? In jealousy, we feel rejected, rebuffed, sh
