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Dealing with Jealous Men at a Friendship level?

Rakehell

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So as i’ve read on here, pretty much all of us deal with jealous guy’s trying to show “their dominance” in order to boost their status in the eyes of others.

I for the most part grew up with this, and had to fight numerous times at a very young age over the phenomenon.

It’s something I could wrap my head around but could never really truly understand because I can honestly say I don’t get jealous of other guy’s. I just know the heights I want to reach.

My question is, how do you deal with jealousy in your circle, and with people who hold rank over you.

For example my guy friends, despite them wishing the best for me, inevitably get jealous at some point. It’s unavoidable. I don’t even know if they realize that it happens. This leads to all the weird dangerous behavior that jealousy brings.

Another example is at my last job. I had a few covert “enemies” who’d do passive aggressive shit to spite me. One of which was a guy who was actually my “superior” in the working sense of the word. Who’d pop bubbles I made with female coworkers, or publicly try to tool some aspect about me in which I was forced to make him sound foolish. Eventually he saw that tooling me wasn’t going to work so he actively sought to be my “friend” but used his authority to keep women away from me.

I guess my question is two parts

Does jealousy always have to play a role in male friendships?

And how do you manage your reputation in social circle, specifically work environments, when you have guy’s (including superiors) who actively want to lower your status?
 

trashKENNUT

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Does jealousy always have to play a role in male friendships?

Yea. Jealousy is common.

Is your superior, a decent guy? If he is not, then it is difficult to involve females around him. Don't give females phone number to other men. It used to be the PUA cliche of sharing girls. It doesn't work. It just doesn't. Because guys do make things too awkward.

So..

I have had senior working friends, interrupting me while I was serving a female customer. Like literally just making me look bad while smiling.

Now there's a difference
1)Make you look bad while smiling
2)Make you look bad while not smiling
3)Using authority

And then there's types of females when this happened

1)They read the territory and they will not engage in it
2)They read the territory and they will jump at the ones with the status.

TLDR:
It's difficult for every situation. I wish I can be there so I can kinda grasp what is it like.


z@c+

Also, it's hard when your salary is depending on one source. It's likely how billionaires stay billionaires and politicians often gets away with doing illegal things while ordinary citizens goes to jail.

Why should I defend Women, Capitalism, Democracy?
The whole system is broken and BLM, SJW are correct in that statement.

 

Skills

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So as i’ve read on here, pretty much all of us deal with jealous guy’s trying to show “their dominance” in order to boost their status in the eyes of others.

I for the most part grew up with this, and had to fight numerous times at a very young age over the phenomenon.

It’s something I could wrap my head around but could never really truly understand because I can honestly say I don’t get jealous of other guy’s. I just know the heights I want to reach.

My question is, how do you deal with jealousy in your circle, and with people who hold rank over you.

For example my guy friends, despite them wishing the best for me, inevitably get jealous at some point. It’s unavoidable. I don’t even know if they realize that it happens. This leads to all the weird dangerous behavior that jealousy brings.

Another example is at my last job. I had a few covert “enemies” who’d do passive aggressive shit to spite me. One of which was a guy who was actually my “superior” in the working sense of the word. Who’d pop bubbles I made with female coworkers, or publicly try to tool some aspect about me in which I was forced to make him sound foolish. Eventually he saw that tooling me wasn’t going to work so he actively sought to be my “friend” but used his authority to keep women away from me.

I guess my question is two parts

Does jealousy always have to play a role in male friendships?

And how do you manage your reputation in social circle, specifically work environments, when you have guy’s (including superiors) who actively want to lower your status?
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