Since their childhood he had resented, without saying it, her interference, her indignation on his behalf, her possessiveness.

NEWYORKER: Faith

David wants a final mad immersion in lust, which arrives, not to his surprise, with its attendant idiocies of jealousy and possessiveness.

NEWYORKER: Elegy

And it just can't last, because possessiveness crushes liveliness.

BBC: Viewpoint: Down with romantic love