How To Get Over Retroactive Jealousy

How To Get Over Retroactive Jealousy

Retroactive jealousy is always accompanied by anger, anxiety, self-doubt, and envious feelings. As a relationship expert, I can confidently tell you these emotions can sabotage your current relationship. So, how can you get over retroactive jealousy?

Accept And Acknowledge How You Are Thinking

Beating the painful thoughts related to your partner’s involvement with other people before meeting you begins by admitting you have intrusive thoughts. Accepting and acknowledging the thoughts allows you to initiate change from your thought system, which in my perspective, allows you to eliminate retroactive jealousy forever.

Seek Professional Help

After admitting you are not okay, check out with a registered psychotherapist. Through a psychotherapist, you will learn why you think that way and how to overcome the thoughts. Psychotherapy will equip you with straightforward tips for overcoming retroactive jealousy, helping you weed out all intrusive thoughts.

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Ieva Kubiliute is a psychologist and a sex and relationships advisor and a freelance writer. She's also a consultant to several health and wellness brands. While Ieva specialises in covering wellness topics ranging from fitness and nutrition, to mental wellbeing, sex and relationships and health conditions, she has written across a diverse range of lifestyle topics, including beauty and travel. Career highlights so far include: luxury spa-hopping in Spain and joining an £18k-a-year London gym. Someone’s got to do it! When she’s not typing away at her desk—or interviewing experts and case studies, Ieva winds down with yoga, a good movie and great skincare (affordable of course, there’s little she doesn’t know about budget beauty). Things that bring her endless joy: digital detoxes, oat milk lattes and long country walks (and sometimes jogs).

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