Comments on: Men, women, sexuality and jealousy

By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:45:57 +0000

@Aluajala
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this post and for leaving such a personal and thoughtful comment. I appreciate it.

By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:37:21 +0000

I think that the roots of jealousy are found in what the evolutionary biologists state. I think we like to believe that things have changed and we buy into the “we’ve come a long way baby” slogan even though it’s not true. In the times we live we still witness women who put their parenting at the top of the list of their achievements. We see women, who behave like men in the corporate and political arenas achieve success there, and are also expected to be supermoms too. We also witness middle age men going through meno-porsche and acquiring young trophy females to boost their ego and virility. The world over we see the patriarchy struggling to maintain power and control over women and their children. In the so-called first nations we see the patriarchy still has the power to subjugate women by denying them equality with men, as even there women still do not have the rights that men do to make their own medical and reproductive decisions.

By: Aluajala

Aluajala — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:24:16 +0000

That’s an interesting topic. I’ve always thought that people are jealous because they’re afraid to lose the object of their love and this is because they think there’s smth wrong with them so that their partner can choose someone better.

The evolutionary view sounds true but it doesn’t cover many situations like why partners from childless couple may be jealous or why sometimes jealousy is show not only in husband-wife relations but mother-son-son’s wife and vice versa etc.

I can’t say much on this topic though for I’ve lived with my husband for 3 yrs, we’re childfree by choice but have never cheated on each other and generally are very open-minded to each other and discuss everything about our relations. I know that he’s mine and he knows that I’m his (this doesn’t mean we limit each other in any way) and that’s it.

By: Nita

Nita — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:46:41 +0000

Fascinating subject indeed. In fact I have a post in the draft stage on something related to this, but not exactly this. I haven't got my thoughts together on that one, I mean a conclusion of sorts. About the jealousy thing, I wonder whether it applies to the modern age? I mean, in the west at least the roles of men and women have been changing for quite a few years now so at least some people would have developed different responses? Those ahead in the game I mean. Overall though I am sure the basic reasons for the jealousy are the same. .-= Nita´s last blog ..The hand analysis of Hrithik Roshan =-.

By: timethief

timethief — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:03:34 +0000

Hi edgecrosser,
Thanks for promoting this post. I think it’s a fascinating topic and hope my readers will think so too.

By: edgecrosser

edgecrosser — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:26:05 +0000

This is a great topic TT, I will link this in my Facebook. Again, thank you for sharing this. All the best!