Do some men purposely look at other women to make their wives/S.O.'s jealous?

This something I would never do. But I am not married right now. I would never make my partner prove it. I think the reason people do this is because they are insecure. They need validation because they don't think they deserve to be loved. Or, they might fear lsing what they have. These kind of demands are based on fear and insecurity, period. I agree, it is a sure way to destroy a relationship. I might look at another woman, but it has nothing to do with making my partner jealous or to cheat. In the daily course of living, you just can't ignore looking at others. It is the fear of rejection that cause others to get jealous over nothing.

Depending on the relationship and how many years you have been with the person , well sometimes when things start getting in a rut or stale , sometimes you just have to shake the sugar tree so to speak. I wont make my man jump thro hoops or anything like that.I know sometimes a well placed flirt else where kind of shakes him up.But after 20 years I think a little shake is sometimes in order.lol

Hum, this is a good question! I would say that sometimes they do, but most of the time, they don't do it on purpose!

Some people seem to be a little mixed up about their sense of self. In my view, love isn't something you constantly have to "earn," it's something that's freely given. If women (or men) are constantly finding ways to get their partners to "prove" their love, there's really an UNhealthy dynamic at work there. I've actually been with someone who "worked" a variation of that... for her, "feeling loved" meant that I showed my willingness to climb an increasingly higher set of "hurdles" to show my love. Usually, it was in the form of increasingly outrageous behavior.... seemingly there as a series of "tests" to see if my love was strong enough to "overcome" escalatingly weird stuff.

I don't think people do it to make their significant other jealous but its just habit. My husband is so funny about it. I dont mind if he looks at other women in fact I sometimes point them out. But I will see him looki and I know what "type of girl he likes so I laugh and sometimes he gets mad and denies it. I tell him time and time again I dont care but still, he tries to hide it. I buy my husband playboy. I think couples sometimes just want to look, after all we are human and God gave us eyes for a reason.