How do you feel about the phrase "A jealous friend is not your friend"?
2026-06-21 21:45 UTC
Replies (8)
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@MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2026-06-21 21:59
That’s inaccurate. I’m jealous of a lot of my friends. I tell them I’m jealous. I’m also happy for them and help them out, especially if it helps them get to the point where I’m jealous of them. You can have more than one emotion and opinion about things.
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@notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-21 22:27
A couple of years ago my uncle Pete came home early from work. As he entered the house, he heard these weird thump-thump-thump sounds coming from the upstairs bedroom. Softly he walked up the stairs. Uh, somehow I lost track of what I wanted to say.
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@kindnesskills@literature.cafe 2026-06-21 22:49
Being jealous is just an emotion, its nothing to feel bad about. How you act on that emotion however, is how I’ll receive you.
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@Melobol@lemmy.ml 2026-06-21 23:50
Are you using ‘jealous’ in the correct way as they are afraid of you snatching up their ‘stuff’? Or in a meaning of envy as they are being envious of you having better ‘stuff’?
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@helix@feddit.org 2026-06-22 07:57
There’s a difference between envy and jealousy. It’s fine to be envious and jealous both, but if you start to be resentful and behave aggressively when jealousy takes over, that’s where you should evaluate if you really want to be friends with me. I mean, why be friends with someone who gives you lots and lots of negative emotions?
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@OliverTheBear@lemmy.umucat.day 2026-06-22 22:54
I feel sad hearing this phrase. I think a friend is a friend regardless of what they feel so saying someone isn’t a friend because of what they might be experiencing sounds isolating for both parties
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@tigermountain@lemmy.world 2026-06-23 00:26
I’ve never heard this. Jealous of what?
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@plutopos@lemmy.zip 2026-06-23 09:21
I don’t like these one-liners that try to extrapolate a simple general rule from a much more nuanced reality