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trust me if it was a real wrong relationship you would know ocd is mainly worries and the worries are usually covered with a lot of overthinking and anxiety an actual wrong relationship wouldnt be a thought itd be a feeling is most of it overthinking anxiety that is trapped in your mind look to see if you are doing compulsions for it which you are doing right now by asking this question if you have to ask if its ocd its probably ocd trying to convince you its not ocd
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also by the actual wrong relationship part their willl be thoughts too but no where as near significant as ocd
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It can be a feeling too! Luckily for me, most of the time it's a thought OR feeling, not both at once. However, that is still possible.
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Well when the crisis has stopped i like to wrote down exactly what happened in real life, like the real actions he or I have taken and that way ypu can take a grounded decision or view of the situation
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Struggle with this all the time. Now that i know my ocd can make me question normal relationships. Idk when im actually in a bad relationship lol.
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I am not officially educated in this but it seems to me that this question is a compulsion. I am sorry to see you are struggling with ROCD at this current time.
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Asking this question is a compulsion. It's you seeking certainty in a situation where there is none. Let the question be there but don't try to answer it. It'll be uncomfortable at first but it will subside if you leave it alone.
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Oop—you’re probably right
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In my opinion, if your relationship is abusive in any way, if your partner is only considering themselves, if it’s not allowing you to flourish and grow.. those are problems. Other things like attraction, connection, etc will naturally ebb and flow over time.
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Thank you everyone for your response. In rocd is it common to want to break up your boyfriend?
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Yes, this is also a compulsion. You're trying to get rid of the anxiety and your brain is telling you if you get out, the anxiety will disappear. But that's not true. Your relationship isn't the problem, OCD is the problem. Again, let the thought/urge be there and carry on with your day.
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Thank you so much guys it means alot just one last question how do you differentiate between an actual relationship problem and rocd related problems?
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As long as you're in a generally loving/safe place with a partner you're willing to learn and grow with, you can leave this question alone. Trying to answer it won't help your OCD in the long term, in fact it'll just feed into it. You'll find flaws where there aren't any and get overly preoccupied with problems that, without OCD, would never have bothered you.
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- 22w
So I haven’t been diagnosed with ROCD but I’ve kinda self-diagnosed myself because of my repeated thought patterns and my way to escape them by searching for answers online (“signs I love her” or taking “do I love her or am I attached/codependent” quizzes) and asking loved ones how they knew they were in love. But recently I started to question this symptom of ROCD, wouldn’t someone in denial about loosing feelings for their partner do the same thing? (try to look for reasons that they do love their partner) I started to feel emotionless and apathy for my partner around the 3 month mark but as we grew closer and had real and emotional talks I started to regain my feelings. But sometimes when we are cuddling i’ll get this sudden emotionless feeling and it gives me anxiety. (It also scares me to think this started at the 3 month mark due to the 3 month rule phenomenon I see on social media) Our relationship has always been soo healthy, I really love my girlfriend and I know it but Im not to sure if i’m actually “IN LOVE.” I sometimes get intrusive thoughts about her looks and feel like im in love with her physical potential rather than how she looks now and that feels so wrong but don’t get me wrong either I still still think she’s beautiful regardless of how she looks. I love everything else about her like her personality, kindness, generosity, and loyalty. She’s my first girlfriend so I don’t know how to distinguish between loving someone and being in love with someone. I also don’t know how to or how it feels to move on from someone after so many emotional/special moments with them and the thought about starting a new relationship makes me feel uncomfortable and is just something I don’t want, hence the feeling that I might just be attached/codependent. I feel so uncomfortable when thinking that if we break up I might never see her again and we’ll never get to rejoice in sharing these emotional, special, and beautiful moments. I want it to be her that I spend the rest of my life with so badly but I feel like my mind is stopping me from picturing a future of us together even though that’s what I really want. (writing this sentence^ I got the intrusive thought of “are you sure that’s what you really want” and now i’m questioning myself) I also can’t help but feel this intense anxiousness in my chest and an inner gut feeling/voice telling me to break up with her without any reason other than because I have a strong feeling she isn’t the one. I haven’t acted on this feeling because In the case that I do have ROCD I know this gut feeling/intuition cannot be trusted. I also read, in the case that I do have ROCD the way to treat it is to endure the anxiety and face uncertainty but I feel like there is no uncertainty about my relationship. I feel 100% safe with her and that she won’t cheat on me, so why do i feel like this!!! I don’t want to endure this anxiety forever, I’m so confused! I’m currently looking for therapy to help decipher my feelings correctly and see if I’m experiencing ROCD. But according to what i’ve explained.. Is this ROCD or DENIAL about losing feelings?
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I am scared the relationship i am in is karmic and i am just scared like its for lessons as it matches with everything that is said..how do i know that it will work and the feeling of it not working with every fight weakening us more than strengthen cause we were never meant to be and should have called it off a while ago after the first few good times cause then we got attached and are dragging it? and i feel it just cant be like intuition wise and if intuition what else can be questioned cause if so and i know breakup not meant to be very different want different things cant change and dragging as i said above and if i know and feel it is not going to work no matter how much we try after fight cause we just are incompatible fundamentally then it is so and idk what we are doing as i feel numb and dissociated and sooner or later will break-up cause not meant to be and is just stretching cause of habit…and none of this is ocd but actually coming up from actual relationship problems so it cant be ocd but the wrong relationship…
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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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