Coaching practices for How to Handle Insecurities in a Relationship
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep hitting the exact insecurity my partner is most ashamed of
- I figure my partner just knows I’m in this and committed, so I almost never actually say it out loud anymore
- When I’m overwhelmed I just clamp down and handle it by myself in silence, even with my partner right there
- I can’t tell whether I’m okay until I read my partner’s face
- I’ve been waiting for my partner to change first so I can finally feel safe, and I’m exhausted from outsourcing my whole sense of okay to whether they reach for me
Practices that may help
- 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 - Give regular assurances of commitment
Explicitly remind your partner of your love, commitment, and investment in the relationship.
Relationship Maintenance Behaviors - Shift from one-person to two-person psychology
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
Secure-Functioning Relationships - Moving from other-validation to self-validation
Gradually replace the need for your partner’s approval with the ability to hold your own self-regard.
Differentiation of Self: David Schnarch’s Framework for Passionate Marriage - Move toward a secure baseline -- in yourself first
Security is a state you can practice moving toward, regardless of which partner moves first.
The Anxious-Avoidant Trap: Why Opposites Attract and Then Struggle - Holding onto yourself under relational pressure
Maintain your own identity, positions, and values when a partner’s unhappiness is generating pressure to capitulate.
Differentiation of Self: David Schnarch’s Framework for Passionate Marriage - 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 - Explicitly asking your partner to treat you as your ideal self
Name one quality of your ideal self and ask your partner to treat you as if you already have it.
The Michelangelo Phenomenon: How Partners Sculpt Each Other - Create and protect the couple bubble
Agree that you each put the relationship above any third party, including family of origin.
Secure-Functioning Relationships - Build secure-functioning habits
Practice the behaviors of secure attachment — reliability, responsiveness, repair — on purpose.
Attachment Theory, Made Usable
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Identify the ways you routinely treat your partner as their non-ideal (worst) self, and stop.
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Move toward a secure baseline -- in yourself first
- How To Cope With Insecurity In A Relationship
Security is a state you can practice moving toward, regardless of which partner moves first.
- How To Handle Feeling Insecure In A Relationship
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Security is a state you can practice moving toward, regardless of which partner moves first.
- How To Overcome Insecurity In A Relationship
Security is a state you can practice moving toward, regardless of which partner moves first.
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