Healthy Relationships Support Group
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Does anyone else in here struggle with jealousy in their marriages? Like wishing your spouse spent more time with his family than friends? I don't mind him having his friends but he tells them more about his life than he does with me and when theres a confrontation and i bring them up he always comes to their defense, but never mine it seems ( although i'm not with him enough to know if he ever does) but I'm tired of being a lesser priority.We got married young 12 years ago and have 4 kids so i think sometimes that he's having one of those crisseses because he had to grow up so fast and now he's making up for lost time; however I CAME B4 any of these guys and it hurts cus i put him before everyone else and sometimes it doesn't feel like I'm getting it in return.
Beyond jealousy, emotional deprivation is what you're really feeling, and I know it hurts. Wish I had something constructive to offer in that department, except to say, if something or someone doesn't love you, turn your attention to something that does, or invest emotional love energy into a good movie, book or TV show. Works for me! Movies are a cathartic release.
Jealousy, in any form, is a waste of mental and emotional energy. We should all rather be focused on improving ourselves, and "the prize", whatever that may be, for us, in life. If "the prize" is his heart, I know you're married...might have to hang with a galpal, for attention and some kind of bonding.