Ever get jealous when a friend gets engaged, or even when you're reading the boards here? 

I'm pretty good about not getting jealous, I figure that if it's meant to be I'll meet him and then it'll happen at some point, and getting upset about it is certainly not going to speed up that process ;)

How about you?

ughh all the time, and i am not a jealous person by nature i just keep thinking, that should be me! i hate comparing my relationship to others' b/c we are all so different and what works for one doesn't mean it will work for others, but damn it is so hard!

Guilty!!  When I first met FI he was on top of the world! Owned a construction company, drove a brand new suburban and was loving life. had it all. Then he lost everything. His business crumbled with the economy, he lost his apartment and his truck. Then his Mom was diagnosed with cancer and she passed away April 2008.  =(  He hit bottom. This was all within the first six months of us dating. Fate brought us together for a reason!  He's slowly building everything back up again, but sometimes I get so sad and think about how things 'Might have been'  We are not where we thougth we'd be in life at this moment. But we have each other! That's what matters most.  =) 

But wow, I get jealous!!!  I won't deny that!

Jealous is the understatement of the century. Go ahead and judge me, but sometimes I won't even say congratulations!!! haha (((Oh god, I'm such a bad person))) This has happened 3 times in the past year...

Especially when the couple has been together foronly a few months, I feel myself laughing on the inside thinking, "I doubt you will even make it to the wedding"

I don't find myself feeling jealous on PW though, just in "real life".

haha nadine!

i know this sounds so terrible....but... my BF and her boyfriend have been together for 3 years this New Years...and i have this gut feeling that he is going to propose to her before Sean proposes to me...ughh i know it shouldn't be a competition, but she is so spoiled! He is wealthy, i mean parents own oil company, fly on private planes to belize, go to NYC on a whim and see every broadway show kinda wealthy. and i can't help but think that if they get married they will be set for life, and not ever have to work if they don't want to!

anyways, she's spoiled and demanding and i have a feeling that she will make him propose soon, i know it's so wrong for me to feel this way but, guilty!

OK Gina, I can definitely see where you'd be jealous of your BF!  Private jets, etc. - I'd pine for that too if someone close to me had it and I didn't, I'm not going to lie about it!  ;)

I have a friend who's gorgeous, has a cute fiance (they've been engaged forever!), her own house, incredibly talented and successful in her own business and of course I get jealous from time to time.  On the outside it appears she has so much but she's got bad family problems so truthfully, I would not trade places with her.

I guess my point is that if WE are happy with our lives (even if they are not exactly as they would have them, i.e. engaged to the men we love), we *probably* have more than those whose lives "appear" to be perfect....kwim?

Still, it's almost impossible not to feel jealous once in a while!  But not comparing ourselves to others is the best way to keep that green eyed monster from rearing its ugly head too often.  If he does it just messes up our happiness, think!

Justinsgirl -- that sounds like a super rough road your FI has had to travel....but I have faith that you and FI will be back on top of the world again soon!  :)

Yes, I must admit, but not on PW. I work with someone who is now seriously planning her wedding and is not even engaged yet (I mean, don't we all hehe)... but as in literally booking venues ect. and he hasn't asked her. She says he tells her "that's the easy part". If it's so easy, why doesn't he just do it already?? My bf and I have been together almost 8 years and even though I know he's working on it, I do feel a little twinge of jealousy towards the one planning her "faux-wedding". I mean, we've been together almost a decade and they've hardly been for a year so I can't help being sick of hearing about all her planning without a proposal! When she told me her date and that they're planning it (with no proposal) I joked "I've been doing that for years!" hehe I can't help it... sigh

Yes I do. Mostly all of our mutal friends are married. And everytime one of them got engaged I was so jealous. I would think to myself non of them has been together has long as we have. I would be like what is he waiting for. But I would soon pull it altogether and really be happy for the couple.But I tell you what it isn't easy waiting. And to top all off one of his friends propose to his girlfriend on new yrs of this yr and I almost lost it. I think that one really put me over the edge. I mean I've been to 6 weddings in 2yrs. I tell you he noticed after the 4 wedding when I didn't get up to catch the bouquet that I was about to lost it! Now that I think about it that's prolly why he asked ummh .....got me thinking. If so then I'm glad his taking his time so he can do when his truely ready.