Jealousy- What is it and what happens if you have it?

"My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was," complains Rodney Dangerfield. Jealousy, defined as hostility toward one with an advantage, is a common but multifaceted emotion. Strong jealousy towards someone can show one of three things towards him or her: regard, contempt, or a feeling inferiority. Respect towards someone is one positive outcome of jealousy. Quite often, when one feels jealousy, he …

…negative nor positive response; rather, it is a response that can harm the person feeling it due to low self-esteem or other causes. Therefore, jealousy is an amalgamated emotion with many sides to it. Jealousy often leads to many things, including love, hate, or an inferiority complex, and thus is very complex and often negative. These reasons are probably why Rodney Dangerfield commented, "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."