How to avoid gluckschmerz about Jeff Bezos’ wedding

June 25, 2025

Opinion

Louise Mahler

The best response is just to enjoy the pictures: these people are simply humans trying to fulfill their own psychological needs with a picture of their life as they want it to be seen by the world.

Louise MahlerLeadership coach

You may be familiar with the term schadenfreude – a word many English speakers are aware of as one’s pleasure in another’s misfortune.

Similarly, there is a corresponding word gluckschmerz – displeasure due to someone else’s success/good fortune – and this is exactly the experience many are feeling worldwide about the opulent wedding of Jeff Bezos.

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