How Coping With Jealousy Can Be Done
Jealousy can have negative effects for you and the relationships you have with everyone else you know. If you look for the right things in your friendships and family relationships you can stop the problem from getting bigger than it needs to be and make coping with jealousy easier as well.
A lot of times, people project their insecurity onto others as when they feel insecure about what themselves. For example, if you have more intelligence than other people, someone might become jealous of it. They might think of you as cocky, when in reality they just feel insecure that they aren’t as smart as you.
Your goal should be to try and solve this problem as soon as you can. This is because eventually the person will begin to dislike you, since you embody their own insecurity. Problems that are allowed to fester rather than being nipped in the bud are never a good idea. The other person may also begin to distance themselves from you, meaning you would be losing a good friend.
This will then create more problems for you later on. If you stop this in a timely manner it will help you and the person that is jealous with you. This is because the other person needs to be aware of his or her insecurity before they can begin to work on it.
The best way to do this is to have a discussion with the person asking them why they think you are cocky. This is because they will have a hard time admitting to you that they are actually jealous of you, they want it to seem like you have some negative attribute. You have to ask them for concrete evidence and if they cannot provide any, show them their logic is flawed.
No matter how he or she responds tell them that they are as smart as you. In doing so, you are able to relieve some of the insecurities they feel. You also show them you are a nice person, hopefully make him or her reconsider the cockiness trait they perceived.
