
The Jealousy Cure
Learn to Trust, Overcome Possessiveness, and Save Your Relationship
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"The Jealousy Cure unlocks the positive power of jealousy for happy relationships." (Foreword Reviews)
"Solid counsel for those whose relationships are plagued by jealousy and the individuals it targets." (Library Journal)
Could jealousy be a positive thing? In this groundbreaking book, Robert L. Leahy - author of the hugely popular self-help guide, The Worry Cure - invites you to gain a greater understanding of your jealous feelings, keep jealousy from hijacking your life, and create healthier relationships.
We’ve all heard tales of the overly jealous spouse or significant other. Maybe we’ve even been that jealous person, though we may not want to admit it. It’s hard to imagine anyone sailing through life without either having feelings of jealousy or being the target of someone’s jealousy. But what if jealousy isn’t just a neurotic weakness? What if it signals that your relationship matters to you? In short - what if jealousy serves a purpose?
In The Jealousy Cure, renowned psychologist Robert L. Leahy takes a more nuanced approach to tackling feelings of jealousy. In this compelling book, you’ll uncover the evolutionary origins of jealousy, and how and why it’s served to help us as a species. You’ll also learn practices based in emotional schema theory, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness to help you overcome the shame jealousy can bring, improve communication with your partner, and ultimately make room for jealousy while also making your relationship more meaningful. You will learn that confronting jealousy in your relationship does not have to be a catastrophe, but can redirect you and your partner to build more trust, acceptance, and connection.
We often feel jealous because we fear losing the things or people that matter to us the most. With this insightful guide, you’ll discover how jealousy can both help and hurt your relationship, and learn proven-effective skills to keep jealousy in its place.
©2018 Robert L. Leahy (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reservedGreat Book easy to relate to
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The fundamental point is to learn to see jealousy as a valid emotion, but with a degree of attachment that allows choice and rational decision making in this most irrational and painful of contexts. My metaphor was to invoke an inner “David Attenborough” able to see this beast as not something to suppress, but something to heed, to see as a warning, to learn from but not to be driven by. Some forms of jealousy, like retrospective jealousy, are driven by unrealistic expectations and a perfectionism that has no place in reality.
I have experienced very extreme jealousy due to betrayal, and it’s an awful feeling. I have made many of the mistakes outlined. It has made me recognise the unhealthiness of relationships in the past, and has taken me to better places albeit through great pain.
I think one aspect that isn’t explored quite so much is the recognition that jealousy often betrays our anxieties about possible inadequacies. Instead of facing up to these we project jealousy, and of course the irony is this often achieves what we fear most - relationship breakdown or ironically infidelity. Of course the other side of the coin is that far from reflecting on the victim, infidelity often reflects either problems in the relationship, or inadequacies of the cheater.
But as the book underlines, it’s complicated!
Some sensible advice and evidence based
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Helped me alot
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the jealously cure
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Has given me a more positive outlook
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Very deep
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Completely changed my thinking
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The Jealousy Cure
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