Green-Eyed Brooke

I've never had a jealousy problem. Yes, I'd react poorly to certain things (ie talking to an old girlfriend and not telling me, openly staring at another girl, etc) but I think I'm totally justified in reacting poorly to those. I've never suffered from paranoia or fear or extreme insecurity. I didn't even know how common in relationships those feelings are, simply because people are jerks and if you've been cheated on once then you feel like you'll get cheated on over and over- no matter how illogical it is and how much you KNOW that your current boyfriend/girlfriend loves you.

Having had only one quasi-cheating experience (we weren't officially dating, but it turns out he was officially dating someone ELSE. Since I was 17 and it was only for 1 month I don't really count it) I wouldn't say I'm one of those people who have been damaged and thus have baggage that makes jealousy an issue; yet, it has become an issue.

I'm not sure where these new feelings of ugly ugly jealousy are coming from...

OH WAIT.
Yes I do.

(I'm going to blog about this because I have a super awesome history of blogging about things that are incredibly inappropriate; however, since I'm not a phone person this is how my loved ones keep up with me. Just act like we're talking on the phone and all this verbal vomit jealousy crap is coming out of my mouth and not off of my blog.)

Here's how all of this started:

I have issues with any and all girls that find themselves saying "well I just don't have giiirl friends. All my friends are boys for some reason I don't even know why!! It's, like, so weird. I just never make friends with girls."

Do you want to know why, girl-who-is-just-so-laid-back-she-only-relates-to-boys? It's one of 2 things:

1-Girls don't want to be friends with YOU. Not the other way around. Whether that is because you pushed them away, or because just because you have a crap personality, I'll let you decide.(Ten bucks on crap personality)

2-You're a slut. I know I know, kinda harsh. Guess what? Also kinda true. And when I say kinda I mean totally true. Of course you're only friends with guys- they fix your car and buy you lunch and always make time for you. It's not because they love your sparkling personality. Shocking. This may have caused reason #1.

I promise you've heard a girl say this before. You've probably said it yourself. If you've said it recently, take a good hard look at what you are doing that is creating such a barrier between you and your ladies.

Boys are easier to befriend, yes, but does that mean they made BETTER friends?

I know for a fact that NOTHING beats having a mom available for a playdate when you've been up all night, you are sick of being stuck in your house and you'd rather jump off a bridge than play hide and go seek with your kids one more time. I know for a fact that when it comes right down to it NO GUY can listen to you cry about the same problem so many times without saying something insensitive and making it worse(maybe the first few he'll be sympathetic, but it takes a girl attitude to understand why you can't just get over it already, it's been 4 months for crying out loud).

I know for a fact that I really haven't cared about girls who say this so much, until I met one that was "bff's" with my boyfriend.

Ugh.
Seriously?
Constant texting/website commenting/inside-joke referencing/old picture posting= totally VALID jealousy and annoyance. Right? PLEASE GO MAKE FRIENDS WITH GIRLS. Heck, I'd be your friend if you'd just back up off the Mancandy a bit.

sheesh.

(p.s. if you couldn't tell....jealousy makes me so ugly. don't judge. sympathize. she is way hot.... and it makes me sad.)
(p.p.s. for all those literal-readers out there, my eyes are blue.)