Hey, everyone, everyone, listeners, today I'm going to answer patron emails, and I'm going to try to go as fast as I can because I have so many emails that are backlogged here.

This first email is from Confused Upper-Tear Patron in California. They write, I have listened to your

episode on jealousy and I would truly love to learn more on your take on

morbid jealousy. I have also heard this under the name of

Othello Syndrome and Pathological Jealousy. I believe there is a larger

percentage of society dealing with this issue and that it is not often spoken about due to the immense amount of shame associated for both partners in their relationship.

I have spent hours reading about other people's experience with morbid jealousy and it sounds exactly

like what my husband and I are going through.

End of email.

So yeah, very briefly because you could listen to my full episodes on

jealousy I talk about it often but I like the term delusional jealousy because

that fits it better. You're you're referring to it upper to your patron in

California morbid jealousy and as you said it can also be called othello

syndrome or pathological jealousy to me me the best term is delusional jealousy because morbid

jealousy is just kind of an odd term, right? And not everyone understands the full meaning

of morbid jealousy. I guess it sounds more deathly or

something morbid jealousy but really it's delusional jealousy. So what's

the definition of delusional jealousy? Well, it's being massively preoccupied

with your partner being unfaithful,

just massively preoccupied with your partner

cheating on you, even though there's no indication of cheating or

very very circumstantial evidence you know like they came home late from work or

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