I don't get jealous!

By Toni
@toniganzon (72285)
Philippines
August 28, 2011 10:21pm CST
My mother was a very jealous woman and she would nag my dad all the time. I swore I'm never gonna be like her as I don't want jealousy to be the reason of a fight between me and my husband. And in fact I'm really not a jealous wife. Maybe I'm lucky to have found a husband who made me feel so secure about our relationship. Even if he appreciates other women, it never gets into me at all. Sometimes he would joke around with his male friends while I'm there and they would talk about other women but that didn't bother me at all. I see no point in getting jealous as I know I'm the one he loves and he would never touch another woman! That's how secure I am!
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22 responses
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
29 Aug 11
Hi! Not feeling jealous on trivial matters is a sign of positivity and maturity and it helps a lot. Jealousy per se a negative trait and it could destroy one's thinking very badly. If we are feeling jealous of someone, s/he may not even come to know about it and on the other hand we keep feeling bad about it and which affects our health. You are lucky to have such a nice and understanding hubby in your life.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
He learned his lesson i guess. Before we got married he was really a very jealous person and he got jealous even of my classmates who would send me a forwarded text message. He almost lost me then because of his jealousy. At first i found it cute that he loved me that much but as it got worse and worse, i felt suffocated i broke up with him. But he came begging and crying and i just didn't have the heart to refuse a man who was not ashamed to cry in front of me.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
2 Sep 11
It means that he has improved a lot.
29 Aug 11
That’s wonderful that you are so secure. I’m in the same boat as you. My partner doesn’t ever look near another woman, and if there is a really gorgeous celebrity on tv, my partner always says oh wow she’s beautiful and I’ll say yeah she really is.. and my partner will always turn to me, and say but you are also beautiful, and you are the one that I love, that loves me, and that I get into bed with every night.. and if I say oh so you don’t want that celebrity then no? lol. Then she’ll say why would I give up all that I have now, all the love and memories with a beautiful woman that is mine, for a fling with a beautiful woman that isn’t.. and that’s so sweet. I get jealous sometimes if other girls or boys are looking at MY girl.. I’m like ugh excuse me don’t you be looking and getting ideas, do you not SEE the ring on her finger haha! but then the jealousy goes away because if my partner see’s them looking at her she’ll always say.. “in their DREAMS” or “I bet they are looking at you babe, not me!” haha :) .. Isn’t it wonderful to be so secure and loved!
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
OH yeah i bet that's what your partner is thinking. My husband thinks the same probably. It's really nice to feel this secure and not to worry whether we are loved less. It makes my hair longer!
2 Sep 11
haha!! it makes your hair longer? from not pulling it out with stress? lol!
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
29 Aug 11
Well personally I would never consider myself a jealous person either. There are people in my life I would never want around my husband that are single women but would never consider my husband being interested in them. They are just women I cannot Trust. Overall we have been married for over 12 yrs. now and I know I can trust my husband and actually know he has women friends he works around. If I was to be controlling and jealous it would make it hard for the marriage for sure.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
Wow! 12 years! And yes you are right, if you would be jealous i'm not sure how you can live together for more years. Some women really can't be trusted at all. But in my case i don't feel threatened by them. If they try to flirt with my husband in front of me, i would just laugh at them because i know they will never succeed with their intention.
@Jelminrie (358)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
That's a nice, it shows how you trust you husband and that's good, trust is so important in a relationship i think, hmmm, i am jealous I think, haha
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@haopee (493)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
Good for you, toni. It's less stressful for a couple when both of them don't have trust issues with each other. I also don't have doubts about my beau. It makes me wonder why- probably because he doesn't seem to be the type who has motive. Most likely that's why you don't doubt your hubby either. Some men are transparent and I think that's a trait I would always like in a relationship.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
I am 3 years older than my husband and he hasn't made me insecure from the day we had our relationship.
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
but for me im jealous woman but in proper place i took to him privately
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
Good luck in your relationship!
29 Aug 11
sorry, i don't really understand this comment.. do you mean when you get jealous you talk to your partner in private about it? .. that's a good thing though, it means you can control your jealousy :)
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• United States
29 Aug 11
Wow! I never got jealous because I thought the opposite, I never saw myself as Enough for a man so I assumed there would be others . But that was before I met my guy. He makes me feel like the only woman on the planet. I know he loves me so why be jealous?
• United States
29 Aug 11
Agreed. I just never thought I could feel this way.
• United States
29 Aug 11
Yes I have! Or should I say he found me!
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
When one is secure and trust has been established, there should be no room for jealousy!
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@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
31 Aug 11
my wife is not a jealous type too and i know i made everything to make her feel more secured after a couple of trials in our relationship. so far, so good. i just couldn't imagine myself being jealous.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
31 Aug 11
Same here, i couldn't imagine myself getting jealous.
@Amanda81587 (3042)
• United States
29 Aug 11
That is awesome that you feel that way. I am starting to think jealousy is a disease because I have it very badly. I do believe it is developed because of the insecurities that I have about myself and the attention that is spend else where but on me. It is difficult to see your loved one giving the attention to another but not yourself. My relationships have been bad and I have been cheated in a lot maybe that is why I am the way that I am, I wish I could not be like this I want to feel happy and secure. But my boyfriend had a jealousy issue as well.
• United States
31 Aug 11
Yeah but it hurts when you see your boyfriend looking at another girl or trying to pay attention to them. it makes me think well why cant you look at me instead what is so wrong with me. I am very insecure and that is because of my very first boyfriend picking out the flaws before I could even find them. So i never was able to love myself first!
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
Hello Amanda! I hope you'll find a man who can treat you in a way that you would even forget what jealousy means! @meangirldork, it might not exist in your vocabulary but it does exist to a lot of people. You might understand it on a different way but not all people think like you.
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@marguicha (215407)
• Chile
30 Aug 11
Iwas never jealous of another woman in all the years I was married to my husband. I was completly sure that he loved me. But it was not only love, but respect and acceptation of how I am. He never gave me a reason to be jealous as I didn´t give him a reason either. It had nothing to do with discussions or the diferent opinions one has of a subject at a given moment.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
1 Sep 11
My husband has never given me any reasons to get jealous as well.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
29 Aug 11
Hi toni Jealousy never leads to anything that can be called as healthy and it spoils many a great relationships. I am quite sure that you are mature enough to ignore those talks and move ahead with the real fact - that you and your hubby love each other a lot and trust each other. That makes life easier and better
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
Oh yes and I couldn't afford to have those laser surgeries to remove my wrinkles! So no room for worrying about such thing!
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
29 Aug 11
The wrinkles They are proof of your waiting eagerly for your hubby to return from work every day - why think to get rid of such marks that would keep reminding you and your hubby of so many great moments
@anneish (117)
• Philippines
1 Sep 11
jealousy is normal i think...especially in a relationship, we must know our limitation about this matter, because there are people that take this very seriously to the point that even their relationship were affected and the worst of it, is that some relationship broke because of this.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
If it affects relationship that much, how can something like that be normal?
@janevi (888)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
How I wish I could be as secure as you are toni:-) Maybe you have been showered with so much love and affection while you were young and you have been brought up in a very secured environment and growing up with your siblings. I agree that when men talked about other women, its just that they are just meere appreciation of the woman but not necessarily to have her. Sometimes women's insecurities can cause the fight between couples. It 's good that you know your husband very well. And yes,there's no reason to be jealous.Men could not just resist to be attracted to attractive women.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
1 Sep 11
Thank you. It was my husband himself who made me felt so secure even from the time we started dating. I can truly understand men appreciating other women's beauty. My husband is aware that other men appreciate my beauty as well and there's nothing wrong with that as long as they don't touch me or do some lascivious acts.
@RDotson (51)
• United States
1 Sep 11
I agree with you! I have never been the jealous type either until my last relationship. As long as you are secure in your relationship you should have no need to feel jealous. In my last relationship he did everything possible to make me feel insecure and it worked for him like a charm. I began to second guess everything he said, I would lose sleep wondering what he was doing, and I even drove an 18 hr trip in 13 hours to check his phone! Then I woke up. I had never been that insecure in any other relationship, so I felt this relationship was toxic to me and I decided to end it. I honestly feel if there is too much jealousy then there is reason for it, it is not healthy for either of the individuals to be in a relationship of this sort.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
You've made the right decision.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
29 Aug 11
hi toniganzon we are both lucky. I had a husband like that too and we both trusted and respected each other . oh he teased me about other pretty women but it was in jest as I felt very secure in his love and respect.I never gave him any reason to doubt me nor did he give me any reason. I am now a widow but it was so comforting to be secure in his love. I had friends who fought over the issue of jealousy, and some unfortunately were right not to trust as their hubands played around. but some were jealous unnecessarily and had mates who respected them and they should have trusted them.A good marriage is based onmutal trust and respect. lol
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
That is so true and without that mutual trust and respect, i don't think a marriage would work at all.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
good for you. my wife sometimes get jealous but i know she only plays with it. i make sure too that she is secure. no woman can beat her. but in my part i sometimes get jealous. my wife is very friendly and she has a lot of guy friends as well. she has a few guy friends since she was in high school, that is almost like his brothers and they are together in a choir when they are teens. at start i felt awkward but then it was all in the mind. so now i am okay. happy that i got over with that i dont like fighting too specially with jealousy.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
I have never ever been jealous! Not even once and not even in a joking manner. So when my husband's friends would tease me, I usually tell them, the girls can have him if he chooses to! I have tons of male friends as I don't get along well with women. I have only a few, those that don't talk about men! And I've told my husband about them he was a very jealous man before we got married bu after getting married he felt secure.
• United States
29 Aug 11
I'm not really the jealous type, and my boyfriend doesn't give me reasons to worry. He doesn't have women that he hangs around with, and him looking at other women doesn't worry me. Besides, I am the cute young thing on his arm.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
1 Sep 11
Oh such confidence you have! My husband is three years younger than me and he hangs around a lot of women. But i'm pretty confident he doesn't have any intentions with them at all. I'm the most beautiful woman for him and other guys envy him for having me as his wife.
@tiina05 (2317)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
hello, Ohh? I am a jealousy girlfriend and sometimes we end up fighting because I am just jealous. Oh god! I cant help myself though I am telling to myself that dont be jealous at all. Hay! I wish I have that kind of attitude. But you know I am trying to change but I think there is no way.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
I have some bad news! You can't change your own self! I have some good news, you'll find someone who will love you and treat you in a way that you won't feel a tinge of jealousy!
@pbbbsra (1214)
• Philippines
29 Aug 11
I have a jealous husband and I have to admit that I am a bit jealous too. But there was never a time we argued about his jealousy. He is over protective and I understand that it is only his way of showing how he loves me so much. Sometimes he talks to me about it fearing that he is making me bored or I am getting offended with his attitude. But it was not bothering me at all. We are even childish with the things we get jealous with. He will never make me jealous of another woman because he is afraid to lose me because of that. He won't even greet his cousins or my girl cousins with a kiss because he thinks it is something I might get offended with. Jealousy is a part of a relationship for me. It does have limitations and should be fair. But for us, we have never made each other feel that we are jealous because we don't trust each other. It depends on the couple and I am happy you don't have problem with jealousy with your husband, it is good to know how much you trust each other.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
1 Sep 11
wow, he wouldn't kiss a female cousin thinking you might get jealous? Wow! For me that would be too much of a concern. I kiss male cousins in front of my husband and that doesn't make him feel jealous at all. I even kiss my male friends in front of him and it doesn't bother him as he knows it's just a friendly kiss and we always do that. I guess it's just a matter of culture.
@jazzyrae (1745)
• United States
29 Aug 11
Think that's awesome I really can't stand jealously I think being secure is great
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
I couldn't stand a jealous person as well. That would be suffocating. I don't see any justification in that at all.