 Jealousy is a feeling we would all be better off without, but unfortunately it is one of our inherent human traits. The truth is that in life everyone gets jealous at one point or the other, however while some people can brush off the emotion some of us prefer to act on it. So are you wondering why certain people act some way around you? Well, it could be that they are jealous. In this video I will show you 9 signs that people are jealous of you. One, they rob their success on your face, even more than they merit. While you may be too humble to voice or enjoy your achievements, jealous people often try to make themselves feel better by drowning out your achievements by overemphasizing their own. This will happen if their achievements are way smaller in comparison to yours. Most often when jealous people achieve success in anything they will try to make the whole world aware of it. They will openly flaunt their successes. It is not out of place to talk about one's achievements, but jealous people do it irritatingly. Usually, people who behave this way are incredibly envious of others' accomplishments and are insecure. They would do anything and everything to prove that they are worth at least as much, if not more. Two, deliberately give you wrong advice. Since jealous people don't want you to have more achievements than them, they sabotage your attempts purposely by giving you bad advice or they may discourage you from even making attempts. You may feel that they are looking out for you, but what they truly want in life is for you to fill. If you ask someone jealous of you for advice about a problem, they will most probably deliberately give you bad advice that will sabotage your entire plans. The reasoning is, if they are already jealous of you right now, they are not likely to tell you how you can do better. They may even make it their life's mission to discourage you from trying new things. If you are excited about an idea and you share it with them, they will be the first one to point out any plausible flaws or negativity in it to lessen your dream balloon. Three, they spoil plans. This is quite similar to the previous sign, but this one goes beyond words of mouth. When people are jealous of you, they will do just anything to make sure that your agendas do not pull through. From happily giving you bad news on the pretext that they are helping you or doing you a favor to secretly destroying a rearrangement made. For example, you have decided to go to a picnic upon sharing your plan with your friend. They will instantly tell you that it is undoubtedly going to rain for the next few days. They will say the first thing that comes to their mind to create doubt in yours. Pay attention if your friend says or does something that could potentially spoil your plans or make you worry about negative possibilities. Four, they downplay your achievements. The one thing that increases the grievance of jealous people towards you is your success. The more achievements you get, the angrier and jealous they are. Since they could not stop the success from coming your way, they try to suit their egos and make themselves feel better by downplaying your success. They do this by associating your achievements to things other than your skills or hard work. For instance, when you get promoted at work, it is typical for a jealous person to say something like, she got that promotion because she is the boss's mistress or he got the promotion because he's got connections with the manager. They will refuse to admit that you are better than them. They make your achievements look like a typical stroke of luck. Five, they cut you short and change the topic. Another common yet subtle way people express their jealousy is to cut you short when you try to talk about accomplishments and success or ignore what is being said and move on to another topic of conversation. As a result of their low self-esteem, listening to someone talk about their achievements can trigger a jealous person's insecurities and remind them of their inadequacies, things that they were not able to do. Essentially, they are cutting you off or changing the topic not to escape the conversation but to escape the voice in their head that is whispering to them that they are not good enough. Since listening about other's success remind them of their weaknesses or failures, it produces inner discomfort to the point that they can bear to even listen to the other person. Instead of being happy and curious about the other person's success, their thoughts are directed towards their shortcomings and so they thwart the conversation. Six, they indirectly pass aggressive statements. Since jealous people can show their internal resentment and jealousy directly, they often resort to passing erratic, passive-aggressive comments while having a smile on their face. Indirectly expressing their true feelings in unhealthy ways can temporarily act as a catharsis for them. Since they are butling up so much negativity within themselves, they have to let it out somehow. For example, they may say words like, for this first time you can get something right and back it up with congratulations. A sensitive person will understand the intent of that comment but someone who is not sensitive might see nothing wrong with the statement. Seven, they try to take credit for your success. Some people will show appreciation towards your progress but at the same time they will try to get more credit for themselves. They usually act to see if they played a significant role in your success and accomplishment and if not for them, you would not have attained that feat. This people say words like, I told you, this is the way to go. If you had listened to me, this success would have come long ago. I remember the time when you came to me for XYZ favor. Such statements can also be made by genuinely caring people who believe in you and care for you, those who are your well-wishers, so please don't get it mixed up with them. People know intuitively who is being genuine and who is not through the manner and place it is made. Eight, they are anxious to compete with you. Jealous people tend to be highly competitive because they always want to be the one reaping the success or as clinical psychologist Melannie Greenberg says they are either insecure or arrogant and want to prove superiority. Some people cannot even hide it, for instance, a person just winning a track race and everyone around is congratulating him, someone walks up to him and says, let's race. That person is jealous and wants to prove that he can do better. Other people, however, don't show any apparent expressions of jealousy when you meet them in person but behind the scenes, they keep an eye on your progress and try to compete with you. They will buy the same clothes, phones, and even as far as traveling to the same places. Nine, they tend to cross their legs. According to a body language expert, a person may cross their legs for a lot of reasons but it is quite a common reaction when one feels uneasy and secure, also when they are jealous of somebody or about something. If your friend instinctively crosses their legs every time you share your achievement with them, it could be a signal that they envy you. Although various studies have confirmed the sign, you should not base your conclusions on just it because there are people who naturally like to cross their legs. If you find someone's behavior exhausting and think it could be jealousy, look out for the signs. The knowledge of it would help you protect yourself.