{"id":1104,"date":"2024-11-19T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holaquiz.com\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2024-11-26T13:54:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:54:02","slug":"how-to-handle-jealousy-in-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaquiz.com\/blog\/how-to-handle-jealousy-in-friendships\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Handle Jealousy in Friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Feeling jealous is a common occurrence due to the presence of someone or something that you perceive can rather easily get in between you and someone you love too much. Even with people you call your friends, jealousy might be the result of insecurity and feelings of being threatened. Given how strong of an emotion jealousy can be, it isn\u2019t easy to let it go and often times it makes people behave in a way that feels right at the moment but is hurtful to their friendships<\/a> in the long run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is nothing abnormal to feel jealous in the context of a friendship, particularly where such a friendship is very close. However, feelings are natural; it is how you respond to the feelings and the thoughts that follow them that will determine the extent of the illusion along with how long it will last and the effect it will have on the friendship<\/a> you share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These following points will help you in fighting (if you haven\u2019t already) jealousy and avoid it from coming between you and your friend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Accept Your Thoughts and Feelings of Jealousy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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As one might expect, putting effort into attempting to stop, overturn, or ignore a thought or a feeling that one regards as adverse does not often succeed due to its infrequency. These attempts can lead to feelings of frustration, fatigue, or aggravation. Self-attribution of jealousy can also actuate additional negative emotions such as shame or anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being angry or feeling the pangs of jealousy, among other things, are difficult emotions to deal with, but a greater willingness to sit with each of these feelings is the best way to transcend them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, individuals who exhibit such acceptance of their negative feelings appear to be able to work past them quite easily. Remembering UCLA Conference interdisciplinary social psychology department\u2019s statements regarding emotions, whenever you feel envy, try to recall that such feelings are normal, acceptable and quite justifying rather than resenting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Do Not Nurture The Feeling of Jealousy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Jealousy does take form and gets bigger through a bad habit such as rumination which itself can evoke actions or words that would form regret later. As it is for the most part normal, Jealousy becomes even more pronounced as people engage in repetitive cycles of anger, and negative, or jealous thoughts. Those thoughts erode your self-esteem, increase the toxic feeling, and defeat it in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this regard, several feelings can trigger jealousy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n