thetammyjo
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ORIGINAL: pandora29 I have to agree with All the ladies and the gentleman.Once he has crossed that border I just wanted to quote this line to say that my advice was quite different from the rest I saw so far in this thread. Jealousy is a feeling and you can't just order a feeling away. If a relationship is worth it, you must work on the jealousy issues together. If its not, you take everyone else's advice and walk. But to think you can "lay down the law" and have someone stop feeling jealous is completely unrealistic. If jealousy is something you don't want and don't want to work on together, I'd say don't even bother saying "it will stop" to someone then. Just end the thing and move on. An order to stop being jealous may result temporarily in the overt jealous reactions stopping but it won't stop the jealousy and I firmly believe you just set yourself up for problems later. I don't see the point in setting future problems up like this. I also frankly believe that most of the people on this board were raised in societies where monogamy and jealousy are promoted. That means we all have to deal with these expectations in some fashion (to overcome, to accept, to live by, to live against, etc). This means that I think it is highly unlikely to find anyone without any degree of jealousy which they either accept and use or struggle to lessen. So its either work or walk -- an order is not going to solve this problem in my opinion.
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