"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity." ~ Robert A. Heinlein

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#PennedPossibilities 974 — Does your MC become jealous? If so, to what degree? How does their jealousy manifest?

Jealousy is something taught in our society.

Read that again.

Nobody ever teaches that jealousy is in any wise good in Bolt's society. It's mentioned as a pathology in Men's Studies, and men taught to recognize that pathology will send people to Health Services if they recognize it.

Bolt has felt envy, when she's seen a woman get a man she was eying.

She's not entirely happy in one scene in Reluctant Courier (for the Mob) when she finds her friend Blue entertaining a pair of women. It's too hard to explain the nuances here, but it's a normal occurrence related to what people in their world call a "man's duty." Calling Blue a part-time geisha hints at the situation, but is not really close. He, however, recognizes that's Bolt has had a bad day (she has them fairly often, working for the mob) and really needs friendly (and also intimate) consoling. She's not up to sharing right then. Blue pawns off the two women on another guy in the association he lives at.

Bolt isn't jealous. That's not the emotion. There is no anger, simply disappointment. Bolt and Blue are completely human, but the society is subtly, but sometimes in your face, alien in ways we can't grasp thanks to our enculturation and gender roles.

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📝 Plot: In Bordeaux, a young intern falls for Juliette, a spirited hairdresser who has been the lover of his older mentor. As lust, jealousy and professional pressure collide, he must choose between ambition and passion. Their tumultuous affair triggers guilt, career threats and emotional upheaval, exploring love’s bittersweet complexities.

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Track 273 — Jealousy

The oboe plays what the English horn wants — graceful phrases that soar effortlessly. The EH imitates but always falls short. Harp measures the gap between them. Viola gnaws.

167th unique emotion. G minor, 72 BPM.

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The study examines how cognitive jealousy is shaped by both an individual’s tendencies and the specific dynamics of a relationship, showing that jealousy fluctuates more between different relationships than within a single partnership. It also highlights factors such as neuroticism, attachment anxiety, and past experiences with infidelity as key predictors of higher jealous thoughts.

This article is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it disentangles stable personal traits from relationship context in the experience of jealousy, inviting nuanced consideration of how partnerships influence emotional responses.

Article Title: Your relationship dynamic plays a bigger role in jealousy than your personality, new study shows

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www dot psypost.org/your-relationship-dynamic-plays-a-bigger-role-in-jealousy-than-your-personality-new-study-shows/

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