PeKaatjeAnkeveen, North Holland Netherlands6,334 posts
Well, if you have a (girl)friend who's flirting with somebody else while you can see it and your (girl)friend don't like your jealous behaviour, (s)he must understand that you are jealous because you love him/her so much and you are afraid to lose him or her.
PeKaatje: Well, if you have a (girl)friend who's flirting with somebody else while you can see it and your (girl)friend don't like your jealous behaviour, (s)he must understand that you are jealous because you love him/her so much and you are afraid to lose him or her.
Nope, not love, it's attachment underpinned with fear.
PeKaatje: Well, if you have a (girl)friend who's flirting with somebody else while you can see it and your (girl)friend don't like your jealous behaviour, (s)he must understand that you are jealous because you love him/her so much and you are afraid to lose him or her.
If she is supposedly your girlfriend and she is flirting with someone else, she is not yours.
Jealousy is a wasted emotion. Not needed if secure. A waste of time if not secure.
Friskyone: Does jealously have value in driving people to improve themselves or, is it a purely negative emotion?
I think the point is as with other emotions - how someone deals or handles it.
With other people/possessions - I can simply be happy for other people. I would seriously question myself if I had issues with what someone else has.
In a relationship - I don’t want to be jealous. I don’t give a partner a “reason” to be jealous and do expect the same. I’m not a jealous person and if I felt that there was a reason, I would have a good look at the relationship.
I wouldn’t want to waste energy on an emotion like that.
Selenite: I don't think jealousy can ever exist in a 'positive' context ...
At best if I'm aware I'm experiencing jealousy I'll use it to see why/what makes me feel so vulnerable/inadequate 'compared' to whatever has made that feeling spring up....
When we are in our power admiration of others replaces jealousy...
Feeling jealous of a partner on a relationship level is nothing but lack of trust in them which reflects lack of trust in ourselves ... in my opinion ...
... Jealousy? Why is the guy triggered in the scenario below which I posted in another thread about People Watching. On returning from the restroom, this guy couldn't understand why his date was so excited to tell him that she had to hug some other guy dining there while he was in the mens room. He left without her and I think they arrived together.
.. “ I watched a younger couple in a restaurant last night while they got excited about one of them hugging someone else while the other was in the restroom. At one point I thought I should leave and avoid being collateral damage and then one of them left abruptly without the other.”
Is he triggered because he was jealous, envious, disrespected or what?
pKrema: Jeez, all you perfect people... Jealousy is a sign of many things, not very pleasant sometimes but part of our human nature... Some people mistake it with being envious... I would be suspicious towards people who never felt jealousy... Jealousy can teach you many lessons, if you want to be taught, of course...
This was explained in on Page 2, If you quit trying to be so perfect and read the thread, you may understand before you contradictict (ALL OF US)
HotrodLarrys: Jealousy is a Negative emotion, It consists of low self esteem, anger, resentments, feeling of being inadequate, not possessing anything of value, physically, mentally emotionally, Spiritually, and hating to see someone else in a greater state of being than themselves....
Many times those feeling of selflessness can turn into "Envy", wanting what you have...(IT EATS THEM LIKE CANCER) It can cause them to do many resentful things, from stealing your possessions, trying to knock others down, so they may hope to feel a little bit higher...they will try to inflict misfortune onto others, and can even cause them to inflict violent behaviors, outrage, self pity, and most often causing them to engage in criminal activities....They are the ones that you need to avoid, at all cost...
To answer your question, (does jealousy have any value) The only value that you can get out of jealousy, is if you see someone of greater substance that yourself....You go out and achieve your own goals (honestly) to better yourself...to the point that jealousy in no longer evident...
pKrema: Jeez, all you perfect people... Jealousy is a sign of many things, not very pleasant sometimes but part of our human nature... Some people mistake it with being envious... I would be suspicious towards people who never felt jealousy... Jealousy can teach you many lessons, if you want to be taught, of course...
HotrodLarrys: Jealousy is a Negative emotion, It consists of low self esteem, anger, resentments, feeling of being inadequate, not possessing anything of value, physically, mentally emotionally, Spiritually, and hating to see someone else in a greater state of being than themselves....
Many times those feeling of selflessness can turn into "Envy", wanting what you have...(IT EATS THEM LIKE CANCER) It can cause them to do many resentful things, from stealing your possessions, trying to knock others down, so they may hope to feel a little bit higher...they will try to inflict misfortune onto others, and can even cause them to inflict violent behaviors, outrage, self pity, and most often causing them to engage in criminal activities....They are the ones that you need to avoid, at all cost...
To answer your question, (does jealousy have any value) The only value that you can get out of jealousy, is if you see someone of greater substance that yourself....You go out and achieve your own goals (honestly) to better yourself...to the point that jealousy in no longer evident...
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Now stop harrassing me about who I am or not meeting Pedro!