Jealousy & Compersion

Jealousy is one of the most common concerns for those entering into non-monogamy. What if I get jealous? What if my partner gets jealous? How can we open up and avoid jealousy? We answer your questions and share some revealing things about jealousy.

5 MIN READ

We are grateful to our five panelists who discussed the good, bad, and the ugly sides of compersion. Compersion is a feeling of joy from others’ pleasure, specifically celebrating your partner(s)’ other relationships in a polyamorous structure.

1 MIN READ

In this episode, Effy and Jacqueline are joined by Dr. Joli Hamilton to talk about her research on jealousy specifically with non-monogamous relationships in mind.

In this episode, Effy and Jacqueline chat with Dr. Marie Thouin about her research on compersion. Dr. Thouin shares the factors that promote or get in the way of nurturing feeling joy for your partner’s joy.

This week Effy and Jacqueline are curious about the purpose of jealousy.

This week Effy and Jacqueline are curious about friendships and jealousy.

Effy and Jacqueline get nerdy with evolutionary psychologist Dr. Adar Eisenbruch to talk about how much of our relational choices are contemporary and how much is written deep into our source code over millions of years ago.

In the final episode of the infidelity trilogy, Effy tells her story of cheating. She explains why she cheated, what impact it had on her relationships and what she's done to break her patterns.

Effy and Jacqueline revisit a classic episode about jealousy and compersion from the days where we recorded love panel discussion from the Curious Fox Socials.

Effy draws out stories of how people moved from established rules that protected them, to establishing freedom that liberated them in the spirit of joy and compersion from a diverse set of Foxes on this live panel.