“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” –<\/i> Iago, Othello<\/p>\n
Shakespeare famously called jealousy the ‘green-eyed monster’, knowing when we’re consumed by it, we humans can act in pretty monstrous ways.<\/p>\n
Accusatory, suspicious, withdrawing affection – we can make life miserable not only for our partners, but for ourselves.<\/p>\n
Of course, sometimes people do have perfectly genuine and justifiable reasons to feel jealous. The problem is then situation<\/i>-related rather than psychology<\/i>-related.<\/p>\n
But if someone is feeling jealous with no real cause or their jealousy has grown way out of proportion to any actual ‘wrongdoing’ of their partner, then that’s where we as therapists and counsellors can make a difference.<\/p>\n