I’m talking about jealousy of a ‘live’ competitor for one’s actual partner. And, I guess, jealousy of the partner of someone whom you’d dearly want to be ‘yours’ (as it were).

As far as ‘casual flings’ etc. go, ok, perhaps. But in genuine love affairs, longer-term or major relationships? I very much doubt that is the case for most.

In my experience, nothing wrong in that, we need a life force (vitality) in some form.

Btw, I mostly research on the subject before blogging!

*The event of a ball being delivered by a bowler too wide or (in international cricket) too high to be hit by the batsman by means of a normal cricket shot, and ruled so by the umpire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_(cricket)

At the very end of yesterday and after midnight just now – I´ve been remembering ‘Kabale und Liebe’, a Friedrich Schiller Theatre Play of the eighteenth century, running up to be performed up to nowadays in the theatres – also in contemporary London – under the title: ‘Love and Intrigues’.

However…it is said that Pandora closed her box and left the ´hope´ in it…

Peace is not a five-letter word.
But a state of Being.
And we sometimes (even here!) get a tongue-tip of taste of that precious feeling, don´t we?

Thank you for being busy in the UK/SN admin/editing line, Satyadeva, after Parmartha´s departure.
Have you been friends – meeting – in the body too?

Madhu