Coaching practices for How to Handle Gaslighting Wife

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• When we fight I hear myself doing the things I swore I wouldn’t
• Once we start arguing it’s like a switch flips and we both just escalate
• I hear the sarcasm and the eye-roll come out of me and underneath it I genuinely feel like I’m the one carrying everything
• The second they raise a complaint I’m already explaining why it’s not my fault or pointing back at something they did
• Nothing is technically wrong, but I’ve stopped noticing the good things about my partner and the small resentments just keep stacking up quietly

Practices that may help

1. Recognize and replace the Four Horsemen
   Criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling each have a specific antidote.
   The 5-to-1 Positivity Ratio in Relationships
2. Make repair attempts early and accept them graciously
   Use small signals to de-escalate conflict before it spirals — and receive them when offered.
   The 5-to-1 Positivity Ratio in Relationships
3. Interrupt contempt -- the relationship's single most corrosive pattern
   Contempt -- moral superiority, mockery, eye-rolling -- is the strongest predictor of relationship breakdown.
   The Four Horsemen: Gottman's Warning Signs of Relationship Breakdown
4. Replace defensiveness with partial responsibility
   Defensiveness is a claim of innocence; taking even partial responsibility is the only way forward.
   The Four Horsemen: Gottman's Warning Signs of Relationship Breakdown
5. 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
6. Fogging
   Calmly agree with any grain of truth in a criticism without caving or counterattacking.
   Assertiveness Training, Made Practical
7. Catch the four horsemen
   Spot and replace criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling during conflict.
   The Gottman Method, Made Practical
8. Make it safe
   Protect psychological safety so the other person can stay in dialogue instead of going silent or hostile.
   Crucial Conversations, Made Practical
9. Master your stories
   Separate the facts from the story you’re telling about them before you react.
   Crucial Conversations, Made Practical
10. Self-soothe and signal when stonewalling
    If you are flooded, take a real break and signal it clearly -- then return.
    The Four Horsemen: Gottman's Warning Signs of Relationship Breakdown

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