Compersion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Compersion is love manifested when a person takes joy in his or her loved one's happiness with another person. It is a form of empathy; that is, pleasure that a loved one is experiencing a good thing in his or her life. It need not be sexual. This distinguishes it from erotic excitement in watching another person or persons behaving sexually, known as voyeurism.
Feeling compersion for the first time is sometimes described as frightening and disorienting because it runs contrary to the jealousy most cultures believe one is likely to feel in such circumstances.
The term was coined by the Kerista Commune in San Francisco which practiced polyfidelity, and is one of the core values of polyamory.
The adjective frubbly and the noun frubbles are sometimes used, in the poly community in the United Kingdom and the United States, to describe the feeling of compersion.<ref>Alexander, Steven. "Free love gets a fit of the wibbles", Guardian Unlimited, 2005-04-04. Retrieved on 2006-07-05.</ref> These terms are more suited to cheerful, light-hearted conversation, and they are more grammatically versatile, for example: "I'm feeling all frubbly" and "Their relationship fills me with frubbles".
[edit] References
<references/>
[edit] External links
| Emotions |
|---|
| Acceptance • Affection • Ambivalence • Anger • Angst • Anticipation • Anxiety • Apathy • Bitterness • Boredom • Calmness • Compersion • Contempt • Confusion • Depression • Disappointment • Disgust • Doubt • Ecstasy • Embarrassment • Emptiness • Enmity • Ennui • Enthusiasm • Envy • Epiphany • Fanaticism • Fear • Frustration • Gratification • Gratitude • Grief • Guilt • Happiness • Hate • Homesickness • Hope • Horror • Humiliation • Jealousy • Limerence • Loneliness • Love • Lust • Melancholia • Panic • Pity • Pride • Regret • Rejection • Remorse • Repentance • Righteous indignation • Self-pity • Serenity • Shame • Shyness • Suffering • Surprise |
