Signs of Jealousy

Somewhere and sometime in this life, everyone of us has ever experienced jealousy. I believe many of us here still remember how awful we felt when we were jealous.

Yes, jealousy is common in every type of relationship. And it often proved to be useful in many romantic relationship: it helps keep the fire of love alive and make the relationship stronger.

If one partner in a romantic relationship never shows any form of jealousy, the other partner may feel no longer wanted and/or needed. And things would be worse if the other partner has self-confidence and self-esteem issues (which are very common among people).

Indeed, jealousy can be very beneficial for romantic relationship. But just like drugs, which will be only useful if taken rightly as prescribed, so will jealousy.

Excessive amount of jealousy will poison any relationship instead of making it stronger. Too much amount of jealousy - just like medicines - can and will surely poison the relationship, even to the extent of beyond recuperation.

So, it is imperative to have control over jealousy. Thus, identifying beforehand whether your significant one - or your love interest - has potential to become an overly-jealous and controlling person can not be over-emphasized.

The funny thing about jealousy is, people who are jealous oftentimes are not even aware that they are jealous. And not only that, the unwillingness of the ones who suffer jealousy to admit that they are jealous adds more complication to the already complicated situation.

Truly, it takes courage (and honesty to own self) to admit jealousy. But no one of us should go through those stressful phases in the relationship caused by jealousy if we can know and identify the signs of jealousy so that we can deal with it the right way.

Yes, there are some signs of jealousy that we can use to know whether our love interest or our significant one - or even our own self - is jealous or not. What are they? Read on!

1. When you talk to an opposite sex, your partner - or your love interest - suddenly becomes too quiet.

2. If you see that your partner act as if he/she does not care when you are talking to a friend from the opposite sex - and from the way he/she behaves you can tell that she is only pretending to not care - there is a good chance that he/she is jealous.

3. If later he/she creates a fight with you for seemingly no cause - and he/she mentions the guy's/girl's name to attack you - then it is obvious: he/she is jealous.

4. You see him/her became disturbed or felt unsecured when you remark someone else as attractive.

5. He/she becomes upset or shows his/her her disapproval if there is someone else seemed attracted to you.

Those are only a few signs of jealousy. There are a lot more. If you find your love partner shows one or several of those signs, then help him/her to overcome his/her jealousy before it becomes too big to handle. Or, if he/she is one that you are attracted to, then there is good possibility that he/she has the similar feeling for you, too. If this is the case, then go, approach him/her and make him/her know about your feeling!