Self-check
Am I jealous of my best friend?
Fifteen things you may have noticed in yourself around your best friend, about three minutes. The result shows which explanations your answers lean toward: envy, measuring yourself against her, fear of losing her, your worth riding on one area, or a hard patch of your own.
Our own short self-check, in our own words, and untested. It shows which explanations your answers lean toward, as a prompt to look more closely at one real moment.
- Envy: Pain at something specific she has that you want, sometimes with a flicker of wishing she had less.
- Measuring yourself against her: Her progress reads as you falling behind, sharpest after catch-ups or social media.
- Fear of losing her: The worry is about the bond itself: a new partner or friend taking your place with her.
- Your worth riding on one area: Her success in one area, like work, looks or love, lands as a loss for you there.
- A hard patch of your own: An ordinary explanation, with no library entry of its own: a hard stretch in your own life that would make most good news sting.