Self-check
Is my mom jealous of me?
Fifteen things you may have noticed about your mother, about three minutes. The result shows which explanations your answers lean toward: envy, criticism that follows good news, her own losses, a wider need for attention, or a real worry about your choices.
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: Wanting what you have, such as freedom, chances or youth, that she lacked.
- Criticism that follows good news: Small criticisms timed to your good moments, rarely at other times.
- Her own losses: Your stage of life touching something raw in hers: aging, a marriage, a career that ended.
- Attention for anyone else: Resenting attention going to anyone, not only you, with grievances about being overlooked.
- A worry she would raise anyway: An ordinary disagreement, with no library entry of its own: a concern about one of your choices that she raises whether or not there is good news, with reasons she can name.