What Haunts You the Most About Your Partner’s Exes?
It’s impossible to predict what will bother you most about a partner’s exes. The beauty of this exercise in testing your own self-esteem is that you often can’t know what’ll get you until the precise moment you discover one of them was a particularly talented artist, a manic pixie dream girl, or really good at…
Maybe Don't Hire Someone to Hack Into Your Spouse's Email
If you suspect that your spouse or significant other is cheating on you, you have a few methods of recourse: you can drop pointed hints about the deep and awe-inspiring wellspring of righteous anger simmering within your heart (i.e., "I personally think that all cheaters should burn in hell forever, hahaha") until a…
How Do I Tell a Friend to Stop Bringing Her Cockblocking Baby to Bars?
Welcome to Friendzone, Jezebel's column devoted to dealing with the valuable people in your life who you're not humping. Got an issue and looking for guidance? Email friendzone@jezebel.com
The Tyranny of 'She's Just Jealous'
When you're in eighth grade and you don't understand why your best friend has suddenly teamed up with the class bully to write you jerky, unsigned notes that they leave in your locker every day (without fail) between fourth period science and fifth period study hall, having a mother who tells you that the girls are…
Love Will Make You a Total Asshole
Today in awesome/awful things scientists make undergraduates do: psychologists have discovered that if you make the poor kids ponder their love for their girlfriends and boyfriends, they turn into jealous dicks who are eager to insult their supposed rivals and also blast them with loud noises. Effective!
Area Girlfriend Upset By Discovery of Boyfriend's Saved Relationship Trinkets
It's difficult to feel cherished when we know that our partners are still carrying emotional baggage from previous romantic entanglements, but it's especially difficult when that emotional baggage manifests itself in the form of actual pieces of crap that used to belong to his ex-girlfriend. And what if he refuses to…
Jilted Wife Cuts Crotches Out Of Mistress' Pants
A wife discovered her husband was on vacation with another woman, so she did the only reasonable thing she could do: cut all the crotches out of the other woman's pants. The wife, who lives on the East Coast, flew to the husband's home in Illinois after she found out he was in St. Lucia with the alleged girlfriend.…
Navy Wives Worry About The Threat Of Women On Subs
The first women to serve on U.S. submarines will begin officer training this summer. Although the cadets and their officers are excited about the historic change, not everyone is excited. Navy wives, worried about their men, have begun to complain.
The Green-Eyed Monster: Study Shows Jealousy Really Does Make You Blind
Researchers have found that jealousy actually makes women worse at a visual game — which should be no surprise to anyone who's had her vision, external or internal, clouded by jealousy.
When Does Jealousy Become Abuse?
A young guy wrote to Slate's advice columnist today, seeking help with his pathological jealousy. Prudie ripped him a new one — and left me wondering where the line is between jealousy and abuse.
Women: Guilt Will Kill You
"Even watching a television soap could undermine your defences against disease," warns the Daily Fail — but only if you feel bad about it.
On Keira Knightley: "Female Jealousy Is A Form Of Lust"
Another day, another article on why "we" hate a beautiful female celebrity. Today's subject: Keira Knightley. Today's reasoning: "she makes this stupid face." Also: lust.
Megan Fox: Hate Her Because She's Beautiful?
We got an interesting letter from a reader today in response to yesterday's Megan Fox post. She wrote that Fox-bashing for unsisterly sentiments is unfair, because the actress "has largely spoken the truth regarding women and extreme jealousy over looks."
Study: Oxytocin Makes For Jealous People, Angry Hamsters
A new study found that oxytocin, usually thought to strengthen emotional bonds, also increases people's envy and schadenfreude. An earlier study found it made female hamsters more aggressive towards intruders. No word on what it does to rabbits. [NewScientist]

