Submitted by Prestigious-Sense942 t3_10ojq0h in LifeProTips
Focus on your own boundaries, that the person you are jealous about is not your extension, not a part of you and not your property.
Feel how you aren’t losing any part of yourself if you lose that person, because that person is not a part of you. You are whole. You are the end of you.
Sounds like pseudoscience garbage. If you're jealous and possessive with your partner, you need to be seeing a psychiatrist. Whatever the fuck "practicing non attachment" means is not going to help you because the problem is your own personal issues -- usually anxiety or personality disorders. Jealousy is a symptom and only an expert can give you the tools to better your mental health.
Is it pseudoscience garbage if it helps?
This is odd advice. The person from whom I learned to not be jealous in a relationship was the first person I truly loved and remain attached to despite no longer being a couple. I learned that possessiveness has zero to do with love. In fact it’s almost the opposite. Consider this: would you love a nice or nephew less if they didn’t care that much for you? If you answer yes, then you know your love is conditional. Then carry that over to other people/relations. There you will see if you can love without the condition of reciprocity. And if you can’t, there is your problem: you haven’t learned to love. That means your affection is transactional. Once love is not transactional, then you can still feel sad if you are not loved back, but still be able to love and care for someone all the same.
So almost the opposite of “detachment”. I’ve learned that the key is to destroy possessiveness, not the emotional attachment to someone. Let others be free to love and care freely. Then chose to either love them or not for who they are, not by how well they love you back. Destroy the requirement of reciprocity.
Destroy transactional affection.
That’s how you learn to love, and do so jealousy free!
This is what cult weirdo keith raneire taught members of his harem to convince them that their objections to having sex with other people was their problem, and to convince them to take his abuse freely.
I think you took two words “love” & “freely” and made the connection. But nothing of what I said renders anyone incapable of choosing who to be with, or enables abuse or coercion. Read more carefully what I wrote. It merely describes relations free of possessiveness, and i question those that demand reciprocity to love. None of that should be controversial. Don’t we all always talk about love devoid of condition as love of the highest form?
if I practice non attachment then I will not be with anyone period because I would not be attached to them
That’s what abusers used to justify taking other people’s love and showing none in return. I would not advise anybody getting tangled up with anyone in that way outside of a parent-child relationship. If someone treats you like garbage or fails to show you love that becomes a data point in your decision about your regard for them.
Yikes. I think you got a very backwards understanding of love if you think it’s transactional and conditional. I’m happy to say that I love who I chose to love, and am happy to report that if someone is toxic or abusive towards me or others I’m free to distance myself from them on those grounds. You see, you don’t HAVE to love someone that is awful. The only distinction is that you can love independent to what you get in return. But it takes maturity to not insert power dynamics. You should give it a try. Cheers 🥂
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