I was just reading Unglued by Lysa TerKeurst and she mentioned a Yale University study that showed that social-comparison jealousy requires three conditions: a person receives negative personal feedback in a domain of life that is important to them, and they believe another person is performing successfully in that same domain (taken from Unglued by Lysa TerKeurst) And it hit… Read More
A Bone to Pick–A Jealous Bone
St. John the Baptist–Donatello Ever catch yourself comparing?As women, we might compare how put together we look, how big our houses are, how many activities our kids are involved in.Men compare jobs. They also might compare wives, or intelligence, or cars, or video games. I don’t know, since I’m not a guy. Whether it’s spoken aloud, or whether it’s just… Read More