37: Duana Welch | The Science of Jealousy and How to Manage It
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Duana Welch (@duanawelch) is known for applying social science to people’s real-life relationship issues at her Love Science blog and in her book Love Factually: 10 Proven Steps from I Wish to I Do.
What We Discuss with Duana Welch:- How jealousy differs from envy.
- The evolutionary purpose of jealousy and why it affects even the typically cooler-headed among us.
- How we can leverage jealousy like a human smoke detector.
- What makes both men and women jealous, and how we can use that jealousy to move relationships forward rather than tearing them apart.
- Jealousy red flags and warning signs -- and rational strategies to employ when we encounter them.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | I actually do get a hefty number of letters from women who say, |
| 0:04.6 | I know you say to let the guy pay the tab, but I feel really uncomfortable with it. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm a professional. |
| 0:09.5 | I make lots of money. |
| 0:10.5 | I don't really need his money. |
| 0:11.7 | I don't want him to think I'm a gold digger. |
| 0:13.5 | A lot of women do feel guilty about this. |
| 0:15.3 | I want to emphasize that. |
| 0:16.8 | And yet at the same time, here's how the letter ends. |
| 0:20.2 | And I paid for my own dinner and I didn't like him anymore. |
| 0:22.6 | And I can't figure out why. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:27.6 | As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:30.7 | Today, we're talking with Duena Wells. |
| 0:32.1 | She's a friend of the show and author of Love Factually, see what you did there. |
| 0:36.0 | Today, jealousy, you mad bro. |
| 0:38.6 | Jealousy is something that's gotten all of us from time to time, |
| 0:41.2 | especially in our intimate relationships. |
| 0:43.4 | We'll discover what jealousy actually is and why we've evolved this complex emotion |
| 0:47.9 | that doesn't seem to do us any favors most of the time. |
| 0:50.4 | We'll also see why jealousy is different than envy and why jealousy isn't just |
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