week 5 response to Maissa

Jealousy is a tricky emotion that seems to affect both men and women and all situations. If trust is broken in a relationship then jealousy may become an issue. Your friend may have been cheated on before and is scared for life, or she is simply insecure with herself and her relationship with her boyfriend. Environment can also play a role, my boyfriend has always struggled with jealousy and trust because as a child his father cheated on his mother and eventually left her (while she was pregnant with their third child) for his lover (who he is married to now). I don’t think it’s a gender issue but maybe there is some random genetic link that is more dominant in females which causes them to be jealous more often then men. The only difference I have ever noticed is that men will go after the “other guy” when threatened or jealous, whereas women will go after their boyfriends (partners) rather than the “other girl.”