Is it normal to feel extremely jealous of your best friend?

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So, lately I've been feeling extremely jealous of my best friend, whom I've known for years. Well, not just lately, but the feeling has gotten stronger as of late.

He and I are a lot a like, I'm just a little more reserved and he's a tad more outspoken. Yet I feel like he has everything I don't, and that I deserve it more than he does. He's taller, a tad more attractive, more well liked, smarter, has better grades, has more things, is better than me at nearly everything, and even a few friends that have met him through me prefer him to myself. But most bitter of all, all of this comes naturally to him, without him having to work to achieve it at all.

Is it normal to feel extremely jealous and resentful of him because of this?

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  • joybird
    12 years ago

    Concentrate on yourself and not him!

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    he might be your best friend but your not his with that attitude

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    • Castle
      12 years ago

      I'm inclined to agree, but not for the reason you're thinking. The fact of the matter is he doesn't care about me anymore; we rarely talk, and the only time we do is when I try to talk to him. I don't mean to sound whiny, I assure your, but it's hard not to feel excluded when your oldest friend wants nothing to do with you.

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      • [Old Memory]
        12 years ago

        well if he wants it that way so be it, you get busy and get out and about, you will have plenty of friends, your friend might be having a problem you dont know about, be forgiving when he returns

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  • pambambam
    12 years ago

    then youre not a real friend!

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  • AngAnders112
    12 years ago

    jealousy is a normal human emotion. the hard part is not letting it get out of control.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    I don't even have a bestfriend. Smh.

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    • shuggy-chan
      12 years ago

      FUCK U what am i then =O

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