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Article: Jealousy & paranoia: relationship killers.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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It was one of the most humiliating and painful events of her life, but it wasn't the first time she was the victim of her husband's intense jealousy and paranoia.
It was his family event, but because he had to work, the wife took their three sons to his parents' home for the barbeque. As she was standing talking to his brother, her husband arrived, walked up behind her, whirled her around and punched her in the face--breaking her nose, splattering blood down the front of her cute summer outfit. He then accused her of sleeping with his brother.
"That's the extreme case of paranoia--a 10-plus," says Dr. Brenda Wade, a family psychologist, of a couple she ...