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If it helps you make sense of life to view what I shared that way, I take no offense at your opinion. And while I completely agreed with @heybarkeep about your first post, I find this one I am quoting from much more relatable.Jealous that... *Looks above and coughs* she let another dude drive her car. "That's MY woman and she shouldn't be letting another man do things I can't." And again. Same root problem.
But from the perspective of someone who had to spend a great deal of time trying to figure out why he behaved this way, "That's MY woman('s body?). Ownership." didn't quite hit the mark for me. Just in my case. May have been helpful to OP, idk.
That one absurd little incident was simply shared to highlight what I did not agree with in your "the notion that her body belongs to him" post. I think many men would take offense at the idea of having a woman they are emotionally involved with reduced down to a mere body, and would balk at language that hinted that was their troubles (no matter how normalized such assumptions are in society).
I'm not saying such mindsets don't exist; Harvey Weinstein, NXIVM, and Howard Rubin are just a few recent examples of people who seem to think they own bodies. Unfortunately, among the plebeians, lines have been blurred, and descriptions have been abused and misused to the point that it is hardly surprising to run across people who take exception to hearing such assessments casually tossed about.
These edits I made...it is conceivable that there is an element of truth to them, since if he didn't have a body, you wouldn't have much to be jealous about. But if you were trying to get a handle on jealousy, saying "you just need to stop thinking you own his body" would be a little...well, I'm just going to go with blunt and possibly wrong.I'mfiercely protectivepossessive over mymanman's body and while I usually think it's cute he's a giant flirt with every woman he meets a part of me screams"MINE.""MY BODY." when I see it or he tells me about it and I have to work to remind myself he's not"Mine""My body" he's his own flirty person.
Innate drive?And some of you say he hasn't given enough info to know if that's the case but what else is there?