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 ...

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 ...

If you've never heard the word "compersion" before, you're not alone. The term, which has origins in the polyamorous community, has been around since the late 1980s, but it can't be found in the ...

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 yourself in this scenario: you are in a long-term relationship, and one day you discover that your partner is pursuing a relationship with someone else. How would you feel? Many of us would ...

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.