Does Jealousy Prove Love?

“A little jealousy proves she loves me, doesn’t it?”  “I love it when he gets really jealous.  It makes him act so dominant and sexy!”  “I guess she really loves me because she went over and beat up my ex when she found out my ex and I were talking again.”  And now a famous quote, “If I’m the one who killed her ….after she started seeing that other guy ….doesn’t that prove I really loved her?”  After all, jealousy proves love, doesn’t it?  Those are real life quotes representing the spectrum of how a large number of people think about love and jealousy in the modern world.  Those quotes also show how large parts of our culture teach or subconsciously program people to mis-understand the relationship between love and jealousy.