Agree. It could also be that your desire to keep growing is one of the things that your partner considers good about you, and that they express frequent appreciation when you’ve in fact put work into growing and also gotten better. So you are good as you are, where “as you are” = “being the kind of a person who keeps growing and wants to continue doing so”.
That is the stance I most often take toward myself, too.
That is the stance I most often take toward myself, too.