Coaching practices for How to Not Get Jealous in a Poly Relationship

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• My partner sided with their family over me again, or didn’t back me up in front of others, and I’m left unsure whether they’ll actually put us first when it counts
• We share everything — same friends, same schedule, every thought as it lands — and somewhere in all that togetherness the wanting evaporated, like there’s no distance left to feel any pull across.
• We used to have our own little language
• The moment we start arguing, any sense that I actually like and respect this person evaporates
• When I’m overwhelmed I just clamp down and handle it by myself in silence, even with my partner right there

Practices that may help

1. Create and protect the couple bubble
   Agree that you each put the relationship above any third party, including family of origin.
   Secure-Functioning Relationships
2. Creating space: the paradox of distance and desire
   Build deliberate separateness — apart time, separate interests, separate friendships — as the condition desire needs to regenerate.
   Mating in Captivity: Sustaining Desire in Long-Term Relationships
3. Cultivating complicity: shared secret aliveness
   Build a private world of in-jokes, gestures, and references that only you two share.
   Mating in Captivity: Sustaining Desire in Long-Term Relationships
4. Protect fondness actively during and after conflict
   Conflict is the test of PSO — deliberately hold the positive frame while the negative one is loudest.
   Positive Sentiment Override: How to Build the Lens That Protects Relationships
5. Shift from one-person to two-person psychology
   Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
   Secure-Functioning Relationships
6. Maintain positivity as a daily practice
   Be pleasant, cheerful, and avoid criticism as a baseline — not only when things are good.
   Relationship Maintenance Behaviors
7. 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
8. Build rituals of connection and shared meaning
   Create repeatable rituals that signal the relationship is a priority.
   The 5-to-1 Positivity Ratio in Relationships
9. Build positive deposits during non-conflict time
   When things are calm, actively add warmth, humor, affection, and interest -- not only absence of conflict.
   The Magic Relationship Ratio: Gottman's 5-to-1 Principle
10. Developing a solid but flexible self
    Know clearly what you value, believe, and will not compromise — while remaining genuinely open to being changed by your partner.
    Differentiation of Self: David Schnarch’s Framework for Passionate Marriage

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