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30-year-old woman runs out of the headspace she needs to handle the jealousy she feels towards her decade-old best friend: 'I’ve started resenting her for always having it so easy, always being just “lucky” and absolutely every single aspect of her life;

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  • I’m really jealous of my best friend and idk how to deal with it.

    Hi I'm 30F and my friend 29F have been friends for almost a decade and I have seen her life closely. She always gets what she wants, idk she's just lucky in that way. She has an amazing long term partner and this was her second
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  • relationship. First one was with one of our other friend's ex, it was a cheating situation. She got back with that friend too. We've worked at two jobs. together and bosses are always nice to her in fact they are more like her
  • mentor/friend while I've always struggled with authority figures, they've bued me. I work hard and even she says I do but I never got as much recognition for my work. I quit my job back in November because of
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  • continuous issues with my superior, and have been jobless since. She recently quit the same job and another one is already being offered to her from a company she didn't even apply to.
  • She just always gets everything, so easily. She has a boyfriend who literally showers her with love, gifts and flowers and what not. Her relationship is literally perfect, I hangout with them all the time and all our friend
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  • group agrees he's the best boyfriend ever, I can't even get a guy to want anything more than a hookup. Her parents are super chill. She goes on trips all the time while mine are too strict and I always have to fight at home just to even step.
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  • out for an evening. I've started resenting her for always having it so easy, always being just "lucky" and absolutely every single aspect of her life. I am happy to have her as a friend and I know it's not a good thing to be
  • envious of our own friends, I try to deal with these feelings by being grateful for what I have but I just can't help but compare my life with hers. Idk what to do. I feel really bad admitting it but lately I've started
  • feeling like I would for once feel better if something even slightly difficult happens so I can finally feel like life's somewhat fair. I can't share any of this stuff with anybody, so I just thought might as well post here.
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