Coaching practices for How to Stop 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
• 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"
• The moment we start arguing, any sense that I actually like and respect this person evaporates
• Every disagreement turns into me versus them, like we’re opponents trying to win instead of two people up against the same problem
• 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. 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. 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
3. 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
4. Fight the problem, not each other
   Reorient conflict so both partners face the problem together rather than facing each other.
   Secure-Functioning Relationships
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. Shift from one-person to two-person psychology
   Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
   Secure-Functioning Relationships
7. Reframing social comparison into shared gain
   When you notice envy, pause and ask: "What does their success make possible for me or others?"
   Mudita: How to Cultivate Sympathetic Joy
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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

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