Coaching practices for How to Deal with Retroactive Jealousy in a Relationship

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• When I’m frustrated with my partner I genuinely struggle to remember why we’re even together
• I keep responding to who my partner was a couple of years ago instead of who they are now
• We’ve been together so long that I talk to my partner like I already know everything about them, but lately something they said caught me off guard and I realized I’m relating to who they were years ago, not who they actually are now.
• My partner told me something they were excited about and I totally brushed it off, and now I feel bad about it
• I love my partner, but I catch myself reacting to them as if they’ll never change

Practices that may help

1. Actively maintain memory of your relationship’s positive history
   PSO is partly built on a rich, accessible memory of good times — keep it alive.
   Positive Sentiment Override: How to Build the Lens That Protects Relationships
2. Map your partner's current inner world
   Know your partner's present worries, stresses, and joys -- not just who they were when you met.
   Love Maps: Knowing Your Partner's Inner World
3. Ask genuine questions about your partner’s inner world
   Keep updating your mental model of who your partner actually is right now.
   The 5-to-1 Positivity Ratio in Relationships
4. Repair a poor response
   When you respond badly to good news, circle back and give the engaged response you missed.
   Active-Constructive Responding, Made Practical
5. Behavioral confirmation audit: how are you treating your partner?
   Regularly examine whether your daily behavior toward your partner confirms their ideal self or their non-ideal self.
   The Michelangelo Phenomenon: How Partners Sculpt Each Other
6. Give yourself permission to feel
   Drop the judgment about whether you should or shouldn’t feel a certain way — the emotion is already there.
   Radical Honesty About Emotions, Made Practical
7. Track what your partner does right, not just wrong
   Deliberately notice and record positive partner behaviors to counteract negativity bias.
   The 5-to-1 Positivity Ratio in Relationships
8. Avoiding anti-ideal confirmation: the sculpting that harms
   Identify the ways you routinely treat your partner as their non-ideal (worst) self, and stop.
   The Michelangelo Phenomenon: How Partners Sculpt Each Other
9. Build a culture of genuine appreciation as a horsemen antidote
   Daily authentic appreciation is the structural counter to contempt -- and it has to precede the conflict.
   The Four Horsemen: Gottman's Warning Signs of Relationship Breakdown
10. Audit your actual ratio periodically
    Estimate your recent positive-to-negative ratio to get an honest read on where you actually are.
    The Magic Relationship Ratio: Gottman's 5-to-1 Principle

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