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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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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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