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"So it&amp;amp;#8217;s been two weeks since I made Engagement Chicken, and there&amp;amp;#8217;s not much to report on the ring front&amp;amp;#8212;though I&amp;amp;#8217;m taking your advice and trying to lay off the nagging. But I do have another question for you:Is it ever good for your boyfriend to be a little, teeny bit jealous of another guy? As I told Married Jake, my boyfriend is about the most laid-back man on the face of the earth. He doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t care who I hang out with and has never gets freaked out when I mention I&amp;amp;#8217;m going out with a new guy friend. The same cannot, it should be noted, be said about me. He works with a ton of super-attractive, successful women, and I&amp;amp;#8217;d be lying if I said it never bothered me. Still, outside of the occasional disdain for an old boyfriend of mine, he has never expressed any kind of concern about the other men in my life&amp;amp;#133; Which is why I was surprised when he started half-jokingly, half-seriously ribbing me about the fact that I hired an insanely gorgeous personal trainer a few weeks ago. OK, I might have told him that the man responsible for getting me buff looks like a brown-haired Ken Doll, but still, I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t really expecting him to pay attention. And I certainly wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t expecting him to instant message me after one of my sessions to ask if I knew what the problem with Ken Dolls was. (Yes, honey, I realize they&amp;amp;#8217;re anatomically incorrect, thanks.) She says: &amp;quot;Oh, Ken! You&amp;#x27;re so dreamy!&amp;quot; He says: &amp;quot;Come on Barbie, let&amp;#x27;s go party.&amp;quot;A few more offhand comments along those same lines and I got the picture that maybe, just maybe, he was just the slightest bit unnerved by Ken Doll. And you know what? Even though I certainly didn&amp;amp;#8217;t intend for it to happen, I sort of liked it. Maybe the prospect of losing what he has will trigger an on-one-knee reaction. Thoughts? Will this accidental jealousy help my ring cause? Or should I hire a new, un-Ken-Doll-esque trainer? Has your man ever been jealous of someone else giving you attention&amp;amp;#8212;even in a totally platonic way? Psst, got a jealous streak of your own? Read these: Tips for jealous types Are You Jealous of Your Boyfriend&amp;#x27;s Exes? Reader&amp;#x27;s Dilemma: &amp;quot;My Boyfriend Is Crazy Jealous of My Exes&amp;quot; Get Glamour Wherever You Go! Follow us on Twitter. Friend us on Facebook. Add us to your Google homepage. Photo: iStock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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