Jack Leon

“jealousy always involves three persons: self, a loved one, and a rival. Feelings of fear arise in the self when there is a threatened (real or imagined) loss of the affection of the loved one. It is, in fact, often imagined rather than real; and even when it is real, jealousy is never wholly rational.9 Fear can be accompanied by hostility toward the rival, and both are often intense emotions because the threatened loss strikes at one’s self-esteem and narcissism.10 Jealousy heightens the human sense of powerlessness, since the jealous person feels incapable of stopping the loss that is about to occur.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole