Coaching practices for Seligman S Perma Model with My Partner

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  • I love my partner, but I catch myself reacting to them as if they’ll never change
  • I want my partner to actually see the person I’m trying to grow into, but I’ve never put it into words even for myself
  • Part of me keeps hoping the right partner will just fix all this for me, and I’m realizing that’s not how it works
  • I shape-shift to whoever I’m with
  • Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what

Practices that may help

  1. Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
    Martin Seligman’s PERMA model identifies five pillars of well-being: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Unlike happiness models that treat well-being as a single variable, PERMA argues these five elements are each intrinsically valued and each independently improvable. Several PERMA-targeted interventions have randomized-trial support; others are mechanistically grounded with less direct evidence.
  2. 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
  3. Mapping your ideal self explicitly
    Articulate specifically who your ideal self is — the person you are working toward — so your partner can sculpt toward it rather than guessing.
    The Michelangelo Phenomenon: How Partners Sculpt Each Other
  4. Positive Psychology, Made Practical
    Martin Seligman’s positive psychology studies what makes life worth living, organized around the PERMA model — Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Several of its signature interventions, including three good things, the gratitude visit, and using signature strengths, have genuine randomized-trial support for raising well-being and lowering depressive symptoms.
  5. The Michelangelo Phenomenon: How Partners Sculpt Each Other
    The Michelangelo phenomenon, identified by Caryl Rusbult and colleagues, is the process by which close partners "sculpt" each other toward their ideal selves — or away from them. When a partner behaves toward you as if you are the person you aspire to be, you tend to become more like that person. Conversely, partners who treat you as your non-ideal self can erode progress toward who you want to become. The effect is observationally supported and has practical implications for how to treat your partner — and how to ask to be treated.
  6. Choose and co-create secure relationships
    Move toward partners and dynamics that reward openness, and build security together.
    Attachment Theory, Made Usable
  7. 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
  8. Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
    Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
    Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
  9. Tracking movement toward ideal self
    Measure your progress toward your ideal self over time — not just relationship satisfaction.
    The Michelangelo Phenomenon: How Partners Sculpt Each Other
  10. Audit your life against PERMA
    Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
    Positive Psychology, Made Practical

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