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Love Life with Matthew Hussey

(Rewind): Feeling Insecure About Their Ex? WATCH THIS

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt jealous about your ex’s previous partners? In the age of social media, it’s easier than ever to see our partner’s history and compare ourselves to our ex’s history.

In this episode, we talk about the problem of this “retroactive jealousy”, how it affects us psychologically, and how to let go of it.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Whoever this person is that has become an almost mythical figure of intimidation in your mind,

0:05.8

you're taking a feature of them and making it really, really important. Hey everyone. It's Matthew Hussey with the Love Life Podcast.

0:32.5

Thank you so much for being here.

0:34.3

I think you're going to enjoy this clip.

0:35.5

It's a classic from the archives.

0:37.5

Check it out.

0:38.2

And don't forget, if you can leave us a review on iTunes,

0:41.2

it would mean the world.

0:42.2

It helps us spread the word about

0:43.4

this podcast all right let's get into the episode

0:49.3

somebody called Brittany wrote into us also and she was writing in relation to a past episode

0:56.9

when we spoke about jealousy and exes and all of that stuff and she said that what we were talking about is actually

1:06.2

called retroactive jealousy and that we feel when we feel jealous and

1:10.2

insecure about our partners past relationships. Social media makes it super easy to

1:15.6

stalk exes and see what they're like. I have felt insecure when former girlfriends seem more

1:20.8

outgoing and social than me.

1:23.1

Sexier, with larger breasts, also better careers.

1:26.9

And I always look, she says, I always look at boobs.

1:30.1

That's a major one.

1:31.9

But I think that's quite interesting because I definitely think that women compare themselves to exes and I'm sure men compare themselves to exes as well, but it's just an interesting thing that it's called

1:43.0

retroactive jealousy and it's interesting to hear that you know lots of people

1:48.7

suffer with that I I sometimes think you you know, because we all relate to how we may suffer from that in our lives.

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