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Jealousy is fearing the loss of an attachment figure, somebody that's important to us,

due to the intercedence or the loss of attention to arrival.

So basically we are dependent in a core relationship that we want to sustain, but due to the presence of a rival for our

attachment figures attention, there's an ongoing fear that we will be abandoned.

And that is the quality that animates jealousy, essentially the fear, the vulnerability associated with losing attention

of a caregiver or a attachment figure to another.

And then envy is the desire for the success advantages popularity wealth of someone else. it's essentially also motivated by significant underlying emotional factors,

but it's essentially where we look at someone else's success or achievement

or accomplishments or recognition or advantages in life, and there's a feeling of resentment and a

wanting what they have. Envy is very well masked by judgment.

Very often we believe that when, if we look at something on Facebook or something in the press

and we see that somebody's getting some form of success or recognition and we don't think they deserve it.

And it creates, it sparks a story of

injustice or unfairness.

It's not something that happens once in a while.

It's probably not a significant pattern that needs to be investigated,

but if it's a, if there's a pattern to it, or regularity to it, then it's, we can confidently say it's masked envy.

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