Today infidelity in romantic relationships can be considered as a damage and greatest reason for divorcing couples and a source of suffering, sadness and jealousy for the people. This study is aimed to compare emotional and sexual jealousy between the married on the verge of divorce and the ordinary people. This study is pursuant of Causal – comparative type plan.\nSamples of people on the brink of divorce were 181 men and women who were referred to family courts for divorce on the first six months of 1391 in Tehran and normal individual sample was 176 available people at the community, and in terms of demographic characteristics they were matched with the group on the brink of divorce, however they never had applied for a divorce in their lives. Used devices included a demographic questionnaire, and scenarios that measures the different situations of jealousy. In order to analyze the data, multiple analyzes of variance (MANOVA) and t-tests were used to examine the impact of emotional and sexual jealousy on infidelity, divorce status, and their interaction. \nResults indicate that between the two groups (people on the brink of divorce and normal people) there is a significant difference in terms of emotional and sexual jealousy. In this way that, average of normal people in both jealousy ratio is higher than people`s on the verge of divorce. According to evolutionary theory, jealousy has adaptive and evolutionary aspects and its performance is discussed in reproductive success and parental investment. Due to this explain, couples who are seeking to preserve their lives and their children`s resources (normal group of study), have been more concerned about losing these resources through their potential rivals, so they show more jealousy and confusion about the infidelity.