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Jealousy: It's Never Okay
I am 23 years old from Sydney, Australia, and have been with my current partner for just over a year. We are both very much in love but I have a major problem with jealousy/self-esteem. All it takes is a glimpse of an attractive or scantily clad woman on television or a magazine cover to get my mind racing about how my partner was looking at the woman in question and I start to burn up. If an attractive woman walks past us on the street I will watch my partner to see if he looks at her, how he looks at her and for how long. I start to formulate scenarios in my head about how much he wants to be with her instead of me. 99% of the time this is based on appearance only. I get sooooo angry and for no reason!
If I do say so myself, I am quite attractive and have no shortage of men asking me out and looking at me in general. Could it be that all my life I have been used to men (strangers) leering at me and propositioning me for dates etc. and believe that men all think the same way? If there Ěs anything with a nice body and nice face they want it and wish that their girlfriends were like that, too. I have always had a complex about my small breasts. Could that be it? continued
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No matter how you look at it, or no matter how well-founded it is, jealousy is always an 