When someone you care about experiences a positive event—like a work promotion, a graduation, a new romance—it is considered not only normal, but emotionally healthy, to rejoice in their success.

Compersion is a form of sympathetic joy in which Person A experiences positive thoughts and emotions when they know about Person B's positive experience, even if Person A gets nothing out of it for ...

Compersion is sometimes billed as "the opposite of jealousy." But the two emotions can coexist. Imagine you’re at a party and you spot your partner across the room, hitting it off with someone else.

Every relationship can happen upon its own set of issues that take some time to work through—and jealousy is a common one. While the green-eyed monster can get in between any set of partners, people ...

Imagine you’re at a party and you spot your partner across the room, hitting it off with someone else. It’s not uncommon to experience a pang of jealousy or insecurity in this situation. But if you’ve ...