The Rambling Llama: Fight The Green Eyed Monster!

Y'all, I'm not gonna lie. This post has been difficult for me to start. This week's Mamas Tell All topic is all about fighting the green eyed monster of jealousy. Jealousy is difficult to talk about. It exists. It's real. And to be honest if you claim to never felt jealousy toward anyone or anything, well then you're a big fat liar. #SorryNotSorry.

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Mom jealousy is a real thing. It may not be presented in a form that's totally obvious, but it's there. I'm totally guilty of this.

After Zander was born, I was having lunch with another new mom. She was talking about her child sleeping several hours at a time at night. Zander was not. I immediately felt the twinge of jealousy: "Ugh. Why isn't my son sleeping like that? They're practically the same age!" Instead of just saying how awesome that was and moving on, I couldn't let it go. I had to one-up her child sleeping. (I'm definitely not proud of this, y'all). "Zander is very close to rolling over." I bragged. Deep down, I knew I said it just to make her feel jealous.

It's stupid, y'all.

I saw this on facebook yesterday, and I kind of thought it was perfect to go with this post today:

So why do we do it? Why do we feel the need to feel like we're less of a mom just because someone else's kid can hit a baseball and mine can't? What do we do to end the cycle?

I can tell you what I've been doing. Praise them! The urge to one-up the other mom will probably be there. I feel like that might just be human nature. Fight that urge and praise the other mom for whatever they shared. She got a fancy new job or a promotion? Congradulate her with the utmost sincerity! Be genuine. Don't just say it because it's the right thing to do. Trust me here. Think about the last time you were really happy for someone. When you got a chance to praise them and tell them how happy you were for them. That made you feel pretty amazing, didn't it? It's the same thing. SURE, you may want the new house, new car, whatever. But secretly wishing that was you.... the jealousy... it's not helping anyone.

I kind of feel like to "fight the green-eyed monster" is to really act like a lady. Empower other women. Lift them up. This will catch on, and I can almost promise that as soon as you start lifting up other women, they will in turn lift you up as well.

How do you fight jealousy?

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Mamas Tell All: Fighting the Green-Eyed Monster

1.	The So-Called Homemaker (Co-Host)	3.	The Rambling Llama (Co-Host)	5.	Rachel @ a Kenyan-Texan family
2.	Everyday Thoughts (Co-Host)	4.	That Southern Mama (Co-Host)