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Hi! Me and my current bf, had a phase like that! To be honest, sometimes we fall back in this "dance", but from the start; we improved soo much!! What helped us, was understanding that there's a deep deep world under rocd, made by wrong beliefs; fears, unconscious mechanisms, unresolved traumas form childhood/past relationships etc!! Everyone is different!! But for me, the doubts were only the "tip of the iceberg". Try to read about attachment styles! If you have an insecure one (Anxious = you always need validation from your partner; Avoidant=you can't commit even if you want to! Etc) it is already something to work and heal! Sometimes rocd is connected with fear of abandonment, rejection, love etc! (Someone told me that if you fear an emotion, Is because that hurted too much in past, and you don't have anymore space for it! That lead to heal some trauma!) Sometimes; our doubts are connected with belief that someone teach us! "Finding THE RIGHT ONE, love as the sparkling feeling that never end, things that should always go well in a good couple!" There are so many!! Maby there is some unconscious mechanisms! For example, I really fear loosing the other person, because it would really really hurt me. So if I feel that the other person is taking distance (maby even because they just need some alone time) I feel personally, and I start this mechanisms: "if I take distance before he did, he can't hurt me" so I switch off (unconsciously my feelings!)
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Sorry if I triggered or scared you. My intention was to show you that there are a lots of things underneath! Don't ever give up, because there are a lot of possibilities!!! Try to choose one, and start to heal. It is not easy, it is not fast. I personally think you have an avoidant attachment style. But I'm not a professional or a therapist, i'm just talkingfor experiences! Surely talking with one would help you though!!! I hope you find out what you want. Wish you the best!!!
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@eoid Yeh, I think attachment styles and OCD can start to get complicated in the head with all these labels. From what I have already read, avoidant attachment style isn't much different to ROCD. I have a nocd therapist. We are just working on my fears surrounding my issues
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this is what ocd will do to us, just trap us in indecision. it’s really hard. we’re trapped there because our ocd is trying to make us avoid bad feelings: regret from breaking up or sadness and misery in a relationship that isn’t “right” for us. but in the process of ocd we end up feeling a whole lot of bad feelings!!! i broke up with my partner of 3.5 years a couple of months ago. it was the right thing and it was hard and ocd was there every step of the way. but doing it and sticking to it ultimately has been so much better than avoidance due to fear and ocd. i think the same can be said for staying in a relationship in certain situations with ocd. i totally get why you’d be afraid because it sounds like what you went through earlier this year was really hard. but avoiding due to fear of those feelings again plays right into your ocd. with the help of a therapist, support groups, and psycho educational books on ocd, you can face the fear head on because (i’m guessing) a loving relationship is something you value.
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Yes thank you so much for this message. I really appreciate it and will read it again. An intimate relationship is really important for me now and yeh I guess that why OCD is there. Whenever I start dating someone. My mind finds a reason why it's not good and someone else that could be better.
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@Todd James yeah i relate to that. and the thing is that there could be better people out there and every relationship has issues. have you read freedom from ocd by jonathan grayson? it’s so good and has some great sections on ROCD. but the whole book is just great and really helped me a lot in starting my recovery journey.
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- 19w
I’ve been really struggling with Relationship OCD since I got married, and 3 years later, I’m afraid I’ve lost the love of my life. Between the Relationship OCD, the Religious OCD, and the Sexuality OCD, she couldn’t handle it anymore. Now that she left, the fog of doubt has faded, and I’m realizing how much I truly loved her all along. I just don’t understand how our minds can play such sabotaging tricks on us. And why? I don’t know what to do. I hope and pray we eventually get back together, but I know I need help. I want to do whatever I can to return to a place where she can feel loved by me, the way she did before ROCD took over. Is anyone here going through something similar? Has anyone overcome ROCD? Were you able to repair your relationship? I’d really appreciate any insight or advice. Thank you.
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My trauma has always prevented me from pursuing a romantic relationship, I’ve always been super terrified of pursuing something with someone for just about every reason I could conjure up. Now, I’ve met someone and I’ve tried so, so hard to push away all those anxieties to make it work; but I feel like the more involved I get, I become more scared and I dwell on more things that may be signs that our “relationship” should end. I keep thinking over and over that I’m not good enough for them, I might be their “target,” they’re not right for me, our feelings are not mutual, it couldn’t work out between us, my friends and family would not approve, I’m not ready for it, etc. Recently, I tried to break things off with them because they were too tall for me. I started sobbing because I was scared that I was being and awful person and I had completely screwed everything up between us. I wanna know if this sounds like ROCD ? I always had a hunch that I could have, but I had never gotten far enough into a relationship to find out. Please feel free to ask me any clarifying questions. Right now I’m probably not making much sense haha.
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Hi all, I’m quite new to the whole ROCD thing as I was just diagnosed after years of thinking I just “wasn’t meant for love/dating” because of how horribly I would spiral into a depressive, extremely dread-filled and horrifically anxious state of mind and immediately cut it off during the talking stage with guys. After breaking up with a guy who I truly liked and cared for TWICE, I was finally diagnosed with OCD and it all really makes sense now. It feels weird trying to explain it to others though… I don’t know if I’m alone in these feelings, but it feels like every time I start talking to a guy—usually after the first date but the worries are extreme even in the beginning when I perceive that they are starting to like me—I end up in this major depressive episode where I don’t feel real or like myself, I can’t take care of myself, I’m either hysterically crying or I feel numb, I feel completely trapped (even if we’re not officially dating yet), I question everything in case I’m missing a red flag of some kind or some hint that this person isn’t right for me (even with simple things like a guy giving me flowers, I end up thinking “is this moving too fast? Is he being weird? Is this love bombing? What if he has an ulterior motive? Why did he really give me these?” when logically I know it’s probably nothing) I feel like I’m always looking for evidence to see if they are secretly weird, if we aren’t compatible (always “casually” ask them to take the Myers-Briggs Personality Test to try to find out as much information as humanly possible right off the bat due to fear of being stuck with them only after realizing their real personality) It then typically escalates to a point where I never want to check my phone in fear that they texted me, I feel smothered from any communication, I wish for them to break up/break it off with me, the thought of them just icks me out and almost disgusts me, I can’t get out of bed, I can’t stomach going out with friends or family of theirs, and I usually need to introduce 24/7 drugs of some kind (weed and nicotine) to my daily routine to cope with the feelings/use it to eat something because I can’t eat when I’m with them/due to the anxiety around dating them. With the man I just broke up with FOR THE SECOND TIME AFTER A WEEK OF DATING, it had gotten to a point—as it always does—where the pain of trying to be with them is greater than my appreciation for them. I might smile at my phone when they text me and be full of joy around them, but the portion of time when I’m NOT around them and left to just think about the relationship or observing how they are behaving rather than being in the moment is just too much. Once I break it off though, it feels like a bag has been lifted over my head and I’m finally back to my normal self. I usually need a couple days to emotionally recover, and then I’m up and cleaning my home, taking care of myself, and back to making plans with others. I feel lonely then and might miss them, but I know it’s just not fair to ANYONE right now to date someone like me. Is this relatable? Do I sound crazy? - Z
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