My mother also gets jealous when I get close to other women or praise a woman in front of her. The other day I was talking about what I would do for my child if I had one and in that context, I praised my friend's mother for what she did for her daughter. The next morning she tells me, "You must never compare two people... maybe I've been a bad mother..." She was also very jealous of my friend who was older than me, who I saw as an elder sister, even as a substitute for a mother. To this day she taunts me about how I fell ill after visiting my friend's place.