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Thursday, October 18, 2007
The green-eyed monster
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I can remember only two times in my life when I have been really, truly, green with envy. Once was when a long-time high school boyfriend (with whom I was on a break) was talking up a cutie patootie on the volleyball team. She was tall with long, curly brown hair and pretty quiet—in direct contrast to my loud, boisterous flaming aura of blondness. I was seething that she would receive the same type of attention that I had received only days prior.
The other time was over a man I actually never had any claim on—a friend I’d been spending every day with that summer but was not dating. When he took what was supposed to be a weekend trip up to his sister’s wedding, the holiday extended into a one-month stay with a woman he’d met at the reception. I almost can’t explain my feelings, since he wasn’t mine and I didn’t want him to be, but for some reason I felt that I had been the special woman in his life and was now being tossed aside.
How disruptive can jealousy be to relationships? Is it always a bad thing? Is there ever a time when jealousy can actually help a relationship?
Have you ever experienced a bout of “irrational” jealousy, when you had no logical reason to be jealous? Has your partner ever been irrationally jealous?
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