Who do you think are more prone to jealousy - men or women?

Question

For instance, are men by nature more territorial; and perhaps, women more emotionally possessive? Are these precursors to jealousy? Thoughts? Comments?

Answer 1

In my experience (which is hardly worth very much), women are more prone to frequent jealous thoughts and feelings, while men are more intense when they are jealous. Women are more prone to get jealous over various little things on a regular basis, men are more prone to explode in a jealous rage.

Answer 2

Jealousy, I believe, is an individual trait not influenced by gender. Either you are a jealous sort, or you aren't. Having said that, I think that women tend to analyze situations far more, which can lead to jealousy - often unnecessarily. And men can exhibit territorial behaviour - but I believe that to be a result of immaturity and insecurity.

Answer 3

Men and women are different in many ways, but neither is more apt to be unfaithful, or more prone to jealousy because of that possibility.

Men tend to be more jealous about sexual infidelity, whereas women are more disturbed by emotional infidelity!!!

Sadly, many women live in fear that their husbands will stray and feel threatened when he spends time with his guy friends.

Some women are even jealous of their husbands’ jobs, because when they’re not at home they’re not spending time attending to them.

Some men will try to control their wives’ every move. If a man doesn’t trust his wife and he wants her to constantly prove her love, he will eventually drive her away. She will simply be emotionally exhausted.

When they were growing up, they saw infidelity, so they may fear that their partners will always cheat, even if they have no cause to feel this way!

People who feel secure and like themselves tend to be less jealous of others and less possessive of their partners, while those who have experienced abandonment or betrayal in their lives can become overwhelmed with jealousy.

As children, they may have felt abandoned when their parents divorced, or they may have had parents who were emotionally unavailable.

If women more emotionally possessive, it is likely that they are slower to show their jealousy; for fear of losing their partner.

Men are more hot headed in some ways, and less able to pretend that jealousy is not destroying their union.

Women are apt to cry and forgive. Men don't have much luck at crying, and calming down.

Men also are less able to hide their tendency to infidelity.

Men need to know that their efforts to feed and protect their mates actually propagated their genes and not some other man’s.

Women, on the other hand, needed to hold onto a man’s emotional love in order to be fed, protected, and sheltered.

Some researchers found that culture had more of an influence on jealous behavior than evolutionary needs.

They concluded that men and women tend to become most jealous over sexual infidelity, but they think that both of their jealousies are far more influenced by societal and family experience than by survival of the species.

Getting control of your jealousy does not mean getting control of your partner, it means getting a handle on your own emotions; so minature guys look bad in the jealousy scenario.

We are less able to preserve our marriages. Immature boys that we are!

Figure out the situation that led you to feel so insecure about any partner.

Answer 4

Both can be quite jealous and it really depends on the situation as well as the people involved. I think men are more likely to act on their feelings of jealousy where women would be more likely to refrain from doing that.

Answer 5

I think it is both. It really does depend on the individual. I for one am not the jealous type.

Answer 6

I think women tend to be more prone to be jealous because of there make-up. As a male, I sometimes wonder if we are equal, just different ways of expressing our emotions.

Answer 7

I think men but it really depends on the person.

Answer 8

Woemn are more jealous of each other. I just started checking out this site yesterday, and I am cat-scratched six ways to Sunday already!!

Answer 9

Both. I think it more depends on the personality of the individual than the gender.

Answer 10

I would have to say both men and women.
If a man is jealous of another man his natural instinct is to call him a f __, p____, and c___.
If a woman is jealous of another woman her natural instinct is to call her s___, b____, and w____.
If a man is resentful over being rejected by the woman he wants, then his natural instinct is to call her a b____.
If a woman is resentful over being rejected by the man she wants, then her natural instinct is to call him a loser.