An article comments on research which seems to prove that successful women make their men insecure - even if they think they are not. It does say that the result should be taken with a certain amount of salt...

http://www.care2.com/causes/successf...chers-say.html

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/rel...p-a0033769.pdf

Are they right? Would the result have been the same if they compared themselves to other men? Or other women? Or is it rather a question of how a given person feels about themself?

For my own part I have been reasonably satisfied with my own doings and not much given to comparison. But after certain health problems I can get sad or envious if I see people do something I can no longer manage, like driving a car, for instance. So judging from that, I think it is an individual thing, if indeed there is anything in it.

What do you think?