A girlfriend that tries to make you jealous wants to get you to appreciate her and no longer take her for granted.
She does this when she thinks her boyfriend isn’t giving her the attention and appreciation she feels that she deserves.
To put it succinctly, she wants him to realize that she is still desired by other guys and he better shape up.
Her boyfriend hasn’t been giving her the right amount of care and affection.
She has expressed this to you and you have ignored her.
This has left her unsatisfied, and yet you keep acting as though she should be happy with the way things are.
She gets frustrated and decides that her best route of action would be to try to make you jealous.
She does this as a final resort to get you to realize that she is serious about how neglected or unimportant she has felt lately.
If your girlfriend is more of the quiet type, she is uncomfortable with verbalizing how she feels.
She was hoping that you would have picked up on her unhappiness in the relationship.
She doesn’t have the courage to come right out and tell you that she is being neglected or her needs aren’t being met.
Finally, she decides to use her body language or behavior to show you that she isn’t happy, and decides to try to make you jealous.
This is the only avenue she believes she has left to demonstrate her unhappiness in the relationship.
In making you jealous, she hopes to rectify what is wrong with the relationship.
Many a time, she tries to make you jealous to gauge how much you like her.
This is inspired by a fear that you are losing interest in her.
As far as she is concerned, you have been showing signs of disinterest.
You haven’t been complimenting her as much as you used to, or have been hanging out with your friends and not with her.
In addition, you are constantly preferring to stay home instead of taking her out on dates like you used to.
This has her worried that your interest in her is waning.
She decides to try to make you jealous so that she gets to reassure herself that you are as into her as you were in the beginning.
There is a desire for greater security in the relationship.
If she observes that you are clearly unhappy that she is getting all this attention, she feels a large dose of reassurance.
She takes it as a sign that you continue to have eyes for her.
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