Do you ever get jealous?

[Parche]

:shrug: :hi:

[bigwillq]

1. Yes.

I do, sometimes.

[redqueen]

2. Yes.

I have issues.

[Deja Q]

3. Yes. It is as much a human emotion as is lust or fatigue.

[Roon]

4. I used to until I was about 10-years-old in daycamp

I woke up to me having my girlfriend broken up with me and already making out with another guy. After that I vowed I would never get jealous again. There is no one on this planet worth getting jealous over...saved myself from a lot of hurt for the rest of my life after that.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. 10-year-olds making out in daycamp?

Ick. Where were the counselors?

[Roon]

11. In rertrospect I guess it is kindy icky

The counselors knew what was going on, I don't know why they didn't stop it. But this was 30 years ago..everything is different now.

[Bucky]

5. I am jealous of Occam Bandage's user name

Other than that, no. I do not want what I have not got.

[ElmStreetPlaza]

7. Jealousy is a form of envy isn't it?

Never.:popcorn:

[datasuspect]

8. have you never been mellow?

[Left Is Write]

9. Yes.

[Mike 03]

10. Yes.

I was especially jealous of any guy who hooked up with my ex-girlfriend after we broke up. It wasn't an obsession, but it did make me jealous and sad, and I thought about her a lot and wondered about the guys lucky enough to be in her life.

I missed her so much, and then later found out she had died of cancer. My family had hidden it from me. So I never really got to make peace with her.

That was one of the worst things that has ever happened to me. It felt like something inside me just died. That happened in late December of last year.

[cherish44]

12. When am I NOT jealous is the question.

Soy un perdador, I'm a loser baby....

[knowbody0]

13. you know how to tell if you are jealous?

you will cry when you chop onions.

[Kali]

16. huh?

[knowbody0]

18. it was a lesson learned from a "wise man"

kind of to lighten things up. I have used it with kids. along with that we were told to vision green slimey pond scum for what it did to our spirit.

our teacher was Uncle Billy, medicine man and trickster. good times!

[Kali]

19. in other words everybody can be jealous?

I didn't quite get it. Onions kill me.

[knowbody0]

22. the lesson I learned and tried to teach

was that we all do get jealous, but that it is an energy that is not only unattractive, but very destructive. I was peeling onions at the time, and my partner was paying way too much attention to a really beautiful woman who apparently saw me as no competition. Uncle Billy was a really cool guy in my life. Prolly you had to be there to get it, but with the little kids I have cared for, especially the girls, it's been a good teaching tool.

Onions get me too, but always give me a smile.

[Kali]

27. Got it. Yes it is very destructive.

I have been the victim of that kind of paranoid jealousy that creates stalkers. I suppose a healthy way to deal would be to use the feelings as a warning or motivation to better some aspect of ones life, but it can sure descend into stupidity fast.

[Haole Girl]

14. Yes, but I am aware of it when I am...

and it is a very ugly emotion.

[pink-o]

15. When I look at other people and start to wistfully wish I had what they did

...I know it's time to change my life! When my marriage was falling apart, I used to watch total strangers and wish I could trade places with them.

That envy is usually the first warning to clean up my own backyard! I don't consider it a destructive emotion, because it motivates me to introspection and finding solutions to my problems.

[Forkboy]

17. No, and I envy people who do...

[Inchworm]

20. yes

but I think things out and try to rationalise.

:hi:

[MrSlayer]

21. Of course.

I'm jealous of people who get to do things they want to do, when they want to do them without a care in the world. Wealth is freedom and most of us are slaves. It sucks being a slave. I try not to dwell on it though, it's unhealthy.

[Richard Steele]

23. No. Envious, certainly...but not jealous.

They're not the same thing, you know.

[ashling]

24. Wasn't that a song by Olivia Fig Newton?

[Dogtown]

25. No

i get even.

that's what the chrome plated 22 oz ballpeen is for.

[Blue_Tires]

26. sadly, yes

i'm an insecure so-and-so...:evilfrown:

[schmuls]

28. Yes, I am jealous of anyone who has children, since I couldn't

have any. Or would that be envy?

[Shell Beau]

30. I had that issue at times. All of my friends were pregnant

and having kids. I couldn't. My husband and I tried for 5 years. I wasn't jealous, but I did envy them and what they had.

Thankfully, I finally got pregnant and it stuck for once.

[Shell Beau]

29. Not often, but it is a natural human emotion.

[av8rdave]

31. I did when I was younger

Maybe I'm just too old for that crap now, but I never seem to get that way any more.

[Deep13]

32. yup.

I recognize it for what it is and move on.

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

34. Sometimes. n/t

[NewJeffCT]

35. Not really

maybe a bit here & there, but never anything serious. I've always tried to avoid it.

[Strong Atheist]

36. Just once... didn't like it.... nt.

[qb]

37. Terribly.

:hi:

[applegrove]

38. I fell in love (which is as easy as falling off a log apparently) with someone

who I didn't know that well. I felt jealousie when I saw him talking to a friend of his. I wished I could have been me he was talking to. That is the only time I have ever felt jealousy. And it was only that one time. Amazing isn't it? I'm certainly a creampuff.

[BarenakedLady]

39. The fact that I didn't feel jealous

And even envisioned ways to hook up my husband with someone else, sort of tipped me off that there was something wrong in the relationship. LoL.

I don't like feeling jealous though. I remember how it was when I was young and "in love". Gah.