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I'm Jealous, Ask Me How...

First off, I'm a newbie here so I'm sorry if this thread is in the wrong place and I know there is already a thread entitled "Jealousy" but I feel that the two contexts are different enough.

Anyhow, so here's my deal. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm probably...most likely...maybe...definitely, bisexual. See, progress? :P Now, I don't really consider myself a jealous person, sure I might have been less inclined to share my Play-doh as a child but for the most part, I think I'm fairly rational. At least I was, until she came along.

So onto the dilemma, the new semester started up a few days ago and I happened to notice a certain girl who was in a few of my classes. Right away, she kind of took over my thoughts, "Is she gay? Isn't she? She looks gay. She doesn't look gay. I think she's gay. No, the odds that she is are just too low, right? But she seems like it. Then again, I have like no gaydar whatsoever, so..." Y'know, that whole agonizing song and dance. But it seemed like less of a curiosity thing and more of a pull, like I couldn't help but be drawn to her.

Anyway, yesterday in class I arrived late and some dude had taken my seat next to her. So they're talking with each other and all of that, which I notice like the stalker I am, but she also seems to be glancing over at me. It was driving me mad the entire class though, her talking to "the dude," like I think I might have even growled inwardly of something.

So yeah, the whole point of this post was that I know next to nothing about this girl, don't know her age, last name, what Disney character was on her thermos in kindergarten...but I do know her first name, so points for that, huh. But there is no rhyme, reason, or right for me to be jealous and yet I wanted to punch striped-sweater dude's face in, and he's a nice guy mind you.

Anyway, I was just curious if anyone has ever experienced this kind of thing, whether it be just the strange pull to someone or the totally unwarranted ownership-y jealous bit...or maybe I'm just crazy, which is most likely a definite possibility but I'd really appreciate reading your comments regardless!

 (and if you actually read to the end of this mess, kudos to you, hope it wasn't too boring)

sparklet's picture

Me too....

It happens to me too.

My current crush is a grad student at my school, and she was teaching one of my classes. There was this girl in my class (also gay, and with a girlfriend, no less), and she was really obnoxious and would talk to our teacher (my crush), which normally would have been fine, but she would make these really unnecessary, small-talkish comments. Our teacher would sometimes laugh at what she said, and I would be absolutely livid, because I took it that this girl was trying to take my crush away from me. As for the punching? I wanted to gouge her eyes out with my pencil lol. Luckily my friends sat around me and we would whisper to each other and totally just rip on the girl, which made me feel better :) 

ice cream's picture

Yeah, "the dude" happened

Yeah, "the dude" happened again today and it was everything I could do not to tell him to f*** off, even if it would have made me look utterly crazy. lol I NEVER act like this with crushes though, so the whole rageaholic thing is new to me, guess I'll have to adjust, or stealthily manage to claim my seat back...good god I am so lame. haha

Thanks for relpying to my post though, nice to know I'm not the only one. :)

staka's picture

I think it makes a crush

I think it makes a crush all the more exciting when you think there's competition. I remember that all of my friends in my dorm each claimed one of the "cute porters" and we would gossip to each other all evening about who was sitting near the entrance of the dorm talking to them.

It would drive me maaaaad when this chick would sit there all night and monopolize my crush's time with unnecessary, small-talkish comments. I even started reporting back to my friends about her where abouts and my friends were like: um, who's your crush?

But yeah, when i'm in a relationship, i'm not the jealous type, but when it's a platonic crush, yeah, i'm a bit of jealous bitchy cat!

ice cream's picture

Eh, I dunno if it makes it

Eh, I dunno if it makes it more exciting that I want to kill off the "competition" its just that I can't tell if she likes him and I'm driving myself crazy. lol

Same here, I'm not usually too jealous in relationships either or just ever, for that matter, I am in full-on 'claw eyes out' mode.

Thx for responding btw!

Short Stuff's picture

I know exactly...

...what you're talking about!! It happens to me every time! I even get jealous of their friends. It's almost ridiculous. I mean, the girl I like now - I know very little about her, we've barely talked, yet when she was apparently trying to figure out if a guy liked her or not (she didn't tell me herself...I tend towards stalkerness as well), I almost went nuts. I know she's still single though, so I dunno what happened there...And I'm doing the same song and dance you mentioned. Erp! Don't know what to do about that. Ah well. And a while back I really really liked this one girl, and she knew I liked her, and I'd get worried every time a guy just posted on her wall on facebook (it turned out I had good reason to, though - she ended up telling me she like-liked me, then I got very sick and was out of contact for a week or so, and when I came back to life I found out she ran off with some dude...).

But I think it's natural...when you like someone, you generally really really want them to like you back. And it's almost sickening to imagine them with anyone else. I hate it when I feel that way, because I don't want to be like those creepy stalker dudes who are like "YOU MINE! I TARZAN!" but...I can't help it, haha. I think it's alright to feel that way as long as it doesn't get too out of hand.

 

"This is a tree on fire with love, but it's still scary since most people think love only looks like one thing instead of the whole world."

ice cream's picture

I'm going nuts too, trying

I'm going nuts too, trying to figure out if she likes this guy or what.

Sorry about the getting sick and the girl running off with some guy. :(

Yeah, I guess that jealousy can be natural, to a degree, (probably not to this degree but still). Maybe this is just because she's the only girl I've ever crushed on in rl, ikd. Thanks for responding :)

QueenOfApologyy's picture

My fist crush...

My first hard crush was a girl named Sarah at my highschool and it was wayy tough to be around her cause even though she never rly talked about guys infront of me, there was always one person to get in my way. My best friends twin brother(grits teeth) and wut made it worse i liked her brother(as a friend). We alwaysed talk about random stuff and hes a funny guy to chat with although hes alittle annoying. So we used to have History together and i sat a few desks from her and John(friends twin) was also a few seats away from her but sometimes he used to sit right next to her. He would talk to her all the time and i remember gripin my desk to the point my nuckles went white. Jealousy rly is hard to deal with, but when i looked up she would always be there lookin at me and then shed give me a cute little smile while john kept on talking lol. So wut i would tell ya to do, is start talkin to her, u cant do anything about jealousy but obviously u like her. So i say go for it.

O and to let ya knw wut happened with me, well i ended up moving and goin to a diffrent school. I guess thts life...