Coaching practices for How to Overcome Jealousy 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
• The moment we start arguing, any sense that I actually like and respect this person evaporates
• I feel the jealousy or the hurt and then immediately pile on a second layer of "I shouldn’t feel this, a mature person wouldn’t"
• 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

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. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Fight the problem, not each other
   Reorient conflict so both partners face the problem together rather than facing each other.
   Secure-Functioning Relationships
8. 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
9. Shift from one-person to two-person psychology
   Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
   Secure-Functioning Relationships
10. Positive Sentiment Override: How to Build the Lens That Protects Relationships
    Positive sentiment override (PSO) is Gottman’s term for a perceptual state in which the accumulated goodwill in a relationship causes partners to interpret neutral or mildly negative partner behavior charitably — as a mistake or a bad moment, not as evidence of ill intent. PSO is built through consistent positive interactions over time; its opposite, negative sentiment override, develops when negative interactions dominate and even neutral behavior is read as hostile. The evidence is observational; direct experimental manipulation of PSO as a clinical target is limited.

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