Hello and welcome to another episode of MRADA asks. So this is sort of a part to the ethical

non-mononcoming episode we did two weeks ago. But specifically, I'm going to be talking

about jealousy because it's been on my mind. Hello, white lotus spoilers ahead, but also because

so many people who submitted or talked to me on the street or my friends or even producers on the

show were just like, yeah, no, it's a no for me. And the thing that they pointed to was jealousy

specifically. This is funny. I saw actually a meme that was like, why does no one know the

character's names on white lotus? Like, it's like, the old James's wife. Actually, her name is

Stephanie. I do know that. But I'm thinking about the relationship of Aubrey Plaza and her husband

and they're in this kind of desireless marriage. Again, spoilers ahead of you haven't listened or

watched my lotus. Please skip ahead right now. I thought they did such a good job portraying his

jealousy and his obsession with the idea that Aubrey Plaza slept with the old James's character,

his old friend, and how he's like staring at her and bed while she's sleeping in all he can see

is like the old James on top of her and them having this passionate sex. It's not reality, but we

switch from Aubrey Plaza's POV to her husband's and, you know, he's picturing what he thinks happened

when he knocked on the door and it was latched. And what I love about this is there's this moment where

you're like totally lost and he seems like a reasonable character. But you know that the old James

touched his white slag that he undressed in front of her and appropriately and kind of out of nowhere

and you have the second of who what's reality and you know the way that jealousy feels and it makes

you kind of crazy. It makes you fantasize things and picture things that just

push you further down into this hole of despair. And the best part about that and I think what brings

me back to ENM and a lot of the conversations that happen around jealousy with ENM which I think

are really interesting and helpful even if you're not interested in ethical non-monogamy is that

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