When Michelle Visage was asked for the secret to the success of her 28-year marriage, during a guest spot on Cush Jumbo’s podcast, she shared a surprising and honest answer: Compersion. She’s not ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The first time I heard my girlfriend talk about her fuck buddy, to whom she’d given the moniker “Hot Doctor,” I felt like a dormant volcano—emotions simmering just beneath the surface, ready to erupt.

From The Lives of the Rich and Famous to Real Housewives of Atlanta, mainstream culture in the U.S. is saturated with jealousy. Popular images of romance cast jealousy as an emblem of true love, ...

Imagine yourself in the following scenario: Scenario 1: You are at an awards banquet where your life partner is being honored for significant achievements in their field. Along with this award, your ...