Will retroactive jealousy go away if I break up and have more experiences?

I received a message from someone on Instagram asking if they should leave their relationship, date multiple people so they are “equal” to their partner and then get back together so the retroactive jealousy can go away.

In all honesty, there is not one person that I have worked with, where they've actually left the relationship and returned, having seen other people, and the retroactive jealousy disappeared. 

In fact, most people that tried this, ended up feeling worse. 

If you are contemplating leaving your relationship to do this my advice would be to first determine WHY you want these experiences. 

Is it coming from a place where you want to one up your partner? You want to do it for approval or validation or for other people to think of you in a certain way? Are you trying to compete with your partner? Because if this is your intention behind doing all of these things, I really don't believe the retroactive jealousy is going to go away.

However, if you feel like you're not ready to settle down, there is more out there for you to see, you don't want to have any regrets in the future and you're just not quite sure about your partner and want to have these experiences for yourself (whatever these may be) then it is a very different situation and you should probably go for it. 

The biggest indicator here is the intention you have behind leaving your partner in order to date around or meet new people. 

Watch the video above for more details on what question you should ask yourself before deciding.