Jealousy in Relationships

Jealousy is common even in the healthiest of relationships. People who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent are prone to be more jealous than others, although jealousy is something that everyone experiences from time to time. No matter how secure in your relationship or yourself you are, you are bound to get jealous sometime. A little bit of jealousy is always good, it keeps you trying to impress your partner and will help better your relationship. Too much jealousy however, can totally ruin it. How can you tell if you or someone else has a jealousy problem? If either you or your partner does any of the following, you might have a jealousy problem:

• Listen in on your partners conversations

• Frown upon your partner participating in activities without you

• Read your partners email

• Constantly question your partner about where they were and who with

• Take an accusatory tone when asking them questions

• Get upset when your partner doesn't spend time with you

• Get angry when your partner looks at other people

• Interrogate your partners friends

• Don't want your partner to have single friends

• Don't let your partner have friends of the opposite sex