If there were no jealousy, how would that affect your life?

A large volume of my own poetry and a bit of my fiction would suddenly vanish.

nothing would change. I am lucky like that….don’t be jealous…

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard gets the answer of the year! I’m jealous.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies should I be jealous? @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard has way more GA’s than I

If there was no jealousy, I’d have so much more sex than I do now.

I’m not trying to be crude, but that’s the honest to god truth.

There is already no jealousy in my life, which is amazing. I am so lucky.

We don’t do things to make each other jealous

There isn’t any jealousy in my relationship. I know I am fortunate.

Jealousy only exists if you allow it to, both your own and the way you allow others’ to affect you.

No jealousy in my life. I feel happier that way.

It might give me about 5% more tranquility but not much. Any jealousies have been tied to things that pose real threat to me, the jealousy isn’t the most dangerous part.

If there was no jealousy, I think my life would be a lot less complicated. Me and my wife are very jealous, but not to the point of stalking or being psychotic and controlling. But it can and does at times, cause unnecessary complications.

After reading a couple of these answers, I started thinking about the larger, evolutionary significance of of jealousy. Right now, jealousy supports pair bonding and the nuclear family as the unit for raising children. Without jealousy, people would no longer feel an individual sense of ownership of their partners or of their children.

Rather, if the society were to survive, the idea that it takes a village to raise a child would become literally true. Everyone would have to be responsible for all the children, regardless of whether they had a genetic stake in that child. The bonds that tie together pairs would be shifted to a larger group.

In such a society, there would probably be a lot more sharing of partners. No one would feel like they owned anyone else and no one would be jealous of anyone else having sexual relations with anyone else. I think the Bonobos are supposed to be like this.

It seems to me that people would form large extended family groups. The groups would be of different sizes. I think small groups would be around ten to fifteen people and larger groups of maybe around thirty people. I think there could be even larger groups, but that would probably fairly unusual.

well there ya go. you answered you own question. :)

and I got a lot of other cool answers, too

Jealousy, like envy, is a particularly harmful impulse. It should be strenuously avoided.

It can’t be avoided but we can learn, or at least attempt to learn, to control it

There would be less times I’m not thinking clearly.

Wundayatta I think the Bonobos have a different concept of intimacy than we do just guessing

Oh, to be a bonobo.