How to deal with jealous people - who don't want you to make friends

[SpiralOut]

I'm just wondering what you would do in the case of someone who doesn't like it when you hang out with people they are friends with. And it's not like she introduced you to these people - you met them on your own and just happen to get along with them. Maybe you were even talking to them before she started to. But if one of them invites you to do something and you say yes, she flips out when she finds out about it.

 

In fact, there may be someone she knows, but is not friends with that you ARE friends with and for some reason she is upset that you hang out with that person.

 

Oh, and you don't like this person and make no effort to befriend her. So you're not pretending to be her friend to get to anyone. And you don't owe her anything.

 

She doesn't come right out and accuse you of anything but it's obvious that she's jealous or worried about something. How do you handle yourself around someone like that?

[january2011]

Ignore her shenanigans and let your good behaviour speak for itself with the other people in the group.

 

Or find another group of people to befriend.