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"Jealousy means they care"

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Healthy love includes valuing a partner. Pathological jealousy is about anxiety, insecurity, and control — not the partner's value.

**Reality: Confuses possessiveness with love.** Healthy love includes valuing a partner. Pathological jealousy is about anxiety, insecurity, and control — not the partner's value. Using jealousy as proof of love is a common rationalization for monitoring, controlling, and isolating behavior. The emotion of jealousy is normal and human; acting on it as evidence of love is a distortion.