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ENVY AND JEALOUSY

You may feel envy if your friend has something you don’t have—but you’ll feel jealousy if you think another friend might come between you and your friend. Either way, your friendship will suffer!

feel first when you hear that your friend is going to Europe for the summer. It’s the feeling we get when someone has something we wish we had too. In the second scenario, you’re likely to feel jealousy. Jealousy is what we feel when something that’s impor- tant to us—usually a relationship—is threatened by someone else. Jealousy makes us afraid that we’re going to lose something or someone because of a third party. Envy is usually a two-person emotion, while jealousy is a three-person emotion. These emotions have a lot in common, though. Both of them are usually connected to feeling as though you’re not quite good enough. With both envy and jealousy, you’re just not sure that