How to Avoid Jealousy

Series Summary

In the contexts of sociology and popular culture, the concept of interpersonal relationships involves social associations, connections or affiliations between two or more people. Such persons may interact overtly, covertly, face-to-face or may remain effectively unknown to each other, as in a virtual community whose members maintain anonymity and do not socialize outside of a chat room. The discovery or establishment of common ground between people provides a fundamental component for enduring interpersonal relationships. In this free video series, the author of several dating books provides relationship advice for those people who are in a relationship or seeking a relationship through the dating world. Discover how to avoid jealousy, how to be charming and how to communicate better in a relationship. Learn how to flirt with a man or a woman, how to handle rejection and how to keep from pushing people away. With these tips on relationships and communicating, lonely nights and arguments will be a thing of the past.

Video Transcript

"Responsibility avoidance is not a good thing. How do you avoid jealousy? This is Dr. Paul, author of Boomer Girls, A Boomer Woman's Guide to Men and Dating, and host of Ask Dr. Paul. Well, there's a similarity there. Responsibility is a part of how to avoid jealousy. Let me give you an example, and I'll give you several examples. You and your girlfriend, this is for men, are sitting in a restaurant, and along comes a girl, and you see her and you go. Guess what? You have now created jealousy. You could have avoided that jealousy, by not going, bad idea, and you know better, and you know that you're not going to meet that girl. You know that you're never going to see her again, and yet you put yourself in a position of causing your significant other to become jealous. It's a natural reaction, that your girlfriend is going to do that, and guess what? It happens the other way around. It's a very simple matter of a girl smiling at a guy and saying hi, and you're standing right there, and you are really twisted. Well, she can avoid it too. Ladies, don't do it. Do you think that subtle smile, that little wink, that look, is going to be ignored by your significant other? Of course not. It doesn't happen, so if you want to avoid jealousy, and that's the way it starts, and it snowballs. It gets bigger and bigger. Stop doing the little things, and it won't lead to the big things. This is Dr. Paul. May your fantasies of today, be your realities of tomorrow."