Love Or Insecurity

Philippines
May 22, 2011 6:25am CST
I was thinking today in my infinite wisdom (hmm...), when a person gets jealous of a person, is it because he/she loves or is just very insecure. What do you think...Do you just love a person sooo much or are you insecure and maybe think you will lose that person?
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• United States
28 Jul 11
Jealousy= Insecurity. True love isn't measured by how jealous you feel. True love is about being selfless. Jealousy is a selfish emotion.
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• United States
28 Jul 11
Thanks for writing a great post! If I saw my man flirting in front of me , I wouldn't hit him , I wouldn't even speak to him. I would turn around , go home , pack a bag and leave if it was his place. Or if it is my place , then he would come home to a packed bag outside the door with the locks changed. Was this because I was jealous? No, it was because I was disrespected. And if he Has to flirt in front of me , he isn't happy with me. And if I said I love him that means I want him to be happy, With or Without me. Flirting with another means he doesn't want me anymore so it's over. So even then It is about his happiness!
• Philippines
28 Jul 11
Yes I understand and agree sarahruthbetg, if we were measuring...however we are human and I believe our emotions sometimes get clouded when we are in those types of situations. Love has been known to make people do and feel things that they don't normally feel. For instance, If you saw your boyfriend/husband talking to another women and it appeared he was flirting, what do you think you reaction would be (not counting your first impulse to slap her/him lol). More than likely you would be jealous followed by anger at least that's how I might feel. The emotion love and jealousy are becoming clouded at that moment. Perhaps the jealousy emotion is starting to become stronger than your love emotion at that time. So I think yes it jealousy is a selfish emotion but it's there just the same and it's hard to ignore it even though you also love. I don't know...just one man's opinion.
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• Philippines
28 Jul 11
Thanks for making me think a little more about this sarahruthbeth.
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@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
22 May 11
Hello Menace730, For a moment try to recall any such moment that you experienced yourself... what do you remember....how did things happen.. First of all, shock in eyes as you are seeing something that you never saw before, and then very deep pain in the heart, which hurts so much that one cannot hide it and the emotions are beyond your control because pain does not allow you to keep control on your feelings. Since you are confused and don't want the person to know how you are feeling, you behave different than usual and this unusual behavior is called jealously. by people who don't even know anything. It is not insecurity or fear of losing the person, it is something that we cannot express in words, it is just feeling which has no name, which all have experienced, yet nobody wants to understand when it come to another person. All this I am talking about jealously in love and human relations...and not about any materialist greed like money gold etc.
• Philippines
22 May 11
Well apsara...I have to disagree in part because when I look back at my jealous feelings when I was younger (and not as wise as I am now...lol), it was always about a girl and I would say I was very very insecure. But maybe I was running the gambit and feeling two different emotions at the same time...
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@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
22 May 11
This subject is very complicated, because in love brain is always loser and heart is always winner....so .......so I don't know what to say....
@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
6 Jul 11
Thank you menace730, you made my day.........
@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
22 May 11
Jealousy is a very negative emotion and most people who experience jealousy are insecure. It is a hard one to overcome but once you do you wonder why you bothered in the first place.
• Philippines
22 May 11
Yes thezone...I did alot of wondering why I was jealous in the first place.
• United States
22 May 11
I think that when someone is jealous it can be either or but mostly I think it would because of insecurities. I never get jealous whenever my boyfriends would talk to a girl or dance with a friend, because in my heart i know where his loyalty lies.
• Philippines
24 May 11
This is called trust estiibabii...It is an important part of a relationship.
@783748 (178)
• Philippines
23 May 11
I guess it's not love anymore. It's insecurity. When you love someone, you have to put all negative things aside including getting jealous. This will only ruin the relationship.
• Philippines
24 May 11
we try to put it aside but geez...it's so hard sometimes isn't it?
28 Jul 11
maybe there's also a different kind of jealousy, some get jealous because they love someone so much but that person put someone or something as a first priority than them, there is also a kind of jealousy that unhealthy and if its because of envy.
• Philippines
28 Jul 11
Ah yes, envy...being jealous of something somebody else has that you don't. I think all these emotions can be good if you don't go to any extreme with them. The trick I guess is control over them and that is sooooo hard.