Does excessive jealousy fall into the category of emotional and mental abuse?

Answer 1

Jealousy rears it's ugly head and people have been done in for far less. Yes, excessive jealousy is a form of abuse because it makes the person who is under stress over it fearful from talking to ANYONE! They never know when their mate is going to "pop their lid" and perhaps embarrass them or act in a physical manner. Anyone who is this jealous needs counseling in order to deal with what is wrong in their lives. A jealous person is not a confident person and does not have any control over their lives. We all risk being cheated on, or losing the love of our lives, but we forge on and try to act with dignity.

Never underestimate jealousy because jealous rages can turn into physical abuse or that person stalking you. People have been murdered over jealousy. They can cause you to lose friends and jobs. In some case they could hurt you or anyone else that is around you be it male or female. Take this one very seriously!

There are many reasons for someone being jealous and here are a few:

Lack of confidence in themselves.

They don't think they are very attractive and believe looks attract more than personality, thus, they feel out of their league.

It could have been the environment they grew up in. Not having any control over precious things in their lives such as parents divorcing. They also could have had "thing taken away" by their parents (in a mean fashion) or by siblings. Once away from home whatever this person now has is theirs!

They could have been cheated on in the past and they think that other men/women will cheat on them as well, so jealousy sets in.

A jealous person (usually male) can treat their women like concubines (you're nothing more than cattle and can be loved, dumped or traded off.)

A jealous person could just be a control freak.

If you are with such a person starting running!

Good luck Marcy

I quite understand most of what you say to be true,but I am a guy who has gone through this hell for over six years. Why do you say that the jealous person is mostly male? Could it be that men don't come out and talk about it. I don't agree. Even today if you talk about a women being hit ,off course it's terrible,but if you hear that a women slaps a frying pan on a guys head it's funny. I have had an woman rip my shirt at the neck, break my gold chain off my neck more than once and physically threaten with a knife as well as mentioning that she would just have me arrested if I didn't give in to her ways. Men don't report anything. In such modern times we hear it about kids,women and even animals being abused ,but not men. Sometimes women can drive men out of there minds. First of all every month she gets her friend, which just so happens to be your worst enemy.That's just the beginning. What about ,I saw you look at that girl when we drove by. Here's another myth we love to shop,but that too usually turns out to be, shopping for her.