- Date posted
- 3y
- Date posted
- 3y
oh man, i kinda relate. i personally haven’t asked my boyfriend for breaks. we’re super close and what we do when i’m not feeling good with my rocd is that we leave the romantic stuff if you will, for later. it was hard for him maybe the first three episodes i had because he felt powerless and useless to me, and maybe that’s happening to your girlfriend in a way. i know you can feel super guilty, i feel that way too. also, id say try and sit with her and talk abou how she feels towards your situation, because i think that if she understood that it’s not real and it’s some time that you need to get better, i don’t think it should be a problem. it’s gonna be hard for her yes, but i think that could make it less of a problem. reply to this comment if you wanna keep talking :)
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- 3y
I am sorry and don't know if that's ok but do you really believe that breaking from your relationship will actually help you in a healthy way or just in a way that feels comfortable? I am married and we were in a relationship for 5 years. From the beginning of our relationship I had thoughts of breaking up, acuse my boyfriend etc and many times considered to break up and solve this on my own to get a better person for me and the other person. However when I sat down with clear thoughts this didn't make sense because we who have Ocd deserve a good relationship and full acceptance even if we bring troubles and negativity to our relationship. I know it is too hard for your girlfriend to fully understand your issue but as long as she loves you and has serious thoughts for your future I think she would prefer be with you or at least I believe this is the most healthy. What if you tried to go through this together and united, accept the fact that Ocd is a part of your lives and move on trying to do the best you can. Ocd wants us apart and not together, wants us to be alone and figure out things that may never be explained logically, it gives us false solutions about wrong issues. Even being alone Ocd will be probably there if we don't get therapy or some kind of treatment. You could try treatment but also stay in your relationship which will only get stronger this way. You will prove Ocd that together is better than alone and love can overcome mental issues and many other human problems. These are my thoughts and wanted to share with you as i have severe Rocd and my life is full of these horrible, torturing intrusive thoughts but still persist to stay and fight for my marriage even when there are days when everything seems black and pointless. My inner self knows that what I love is my family and have to fight for it. Stay strong and don't let ocd take the lead
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- 24w
I've been in this relationship for 1.5 yrs on and off and what I like about her is She's smart, beautiful, cleans, she says she loves me, she cooks for me. But what I noticed about this person from the beginning is that she is negative about her past, such as getting her things stolen, going to mental hospitals back to back and people did her wrong. And I was there to be there for her such as when she is in pain, I take her to doctors, or whatever I can do to make her feel better. But I've noticed throughout the relationship that she checks on my phone and checks if im talking to someone. And always mixes up with her memory thinking I cheating on her on the relationship.. honestly her memory is not clear. Most of the time she would ask me am I talking to a girl or when I do uber do I casual talk to them, and the conversation I have is just about, How's the neighborhood here? The food around here. About God.. Nothing flirtatious what's so ever. But she always give me a conversation about other women. 2x I spoke to her about my ocd. (1st time I broke up with her because she was angry at me, and I can understand and so I broke it off) One was sexual thoughts during sex 2nd time (is an ex theme) Because I know she hates these subjects so I avoid it. This is why I tell myself don't have these thoughts, the more I don't want them, it appears in my awareness and it causes me emotional distress. I've told her about it (it could be a compulsion) she wasn't happy and seemed mad about it. So I just feel like just call it quits... because I've tried my very best to get rid of these thoughts and don't want to give her pain. I can understand why she is angry and that she loves me ( she reaches out and wants to work things out ) But what I truly do not like is when she gets mad when there are no problems such as that uber issue, she would say ok if you do that I'll talk to guys then, (in my head, what do you mean? In what way? I wasn't flirtatious or anything) What I believe is how we grew up and raised different. Throughout the relationship, when we argue (mostly about women, about her issues like who are you texting is it a girl? She would vent all the time about how she hates her workplace and jumps from job to job) My beliefs if we love each other, we should encourage each other to grow. there is no reason to opposing us from growing - to be angry, jealous, arguments etc. I do believe in God. That is why most of the time I feel like she is always talking about the past mistakes - she talked down on me about being with a prostitute - 7 yrs ago (way before this relationship started). She curses alot.. And for all these reasons I should quit the relationship. But she has the nerve to say I am unstable and that she is tired of hearing I keep kicking her out the house (it didn't happen, but she doesn't realize my needs - as in why aren't we growing from this area? - as in why are you always mad at people from work? Or why do you get annoyed all the time? I give her advice in these areas but she knows im tired of hearing about this. So she talks to her family about it. But i realized she wanted me to care for her... i do but i also do tough love... we cant just vent 24/7.) And when I told her about my ocd and broken up due to the fact of having sexual images ( I can't control it) She moved to TX and I visited her a couple times. She said she is suffering without me. And so i took her back. She don't like to talk about exes so the theme ex stuck in my head and I wanted to get rid of it. That's what cause the second breakup. I confessed to her about my problems of why the breakup happened and it seemed like she couldn't accept it , she does not understand ocd and she said she don't care. I blocked her and she was going to send me a message saying she will be there for me and love me alot and wants to grow together. But I am still resentful for what happened. Til this day I'm still afraid of her and my thoughts whenever I'm around her. -- Now she wants to marry me.. but I'm unsure because it seems forceful and that she doesn't understand what I'm going through. Even when we communicate I feel she will judge me for my ocd (even when i look for help) and I feel resentful because I feel like I did nothing wrong. There is no other woman involved, no cheating. It's just my ocd and she keeps saying I think of my ex all the time. I am not trying to hold on to flaws but thinking back of her patterns haunts me. I love her. We have seperated for months and she said she is having problems with the landlord.. So it tells me something why is she having problems with other people alot?? Whenever she's around my ocd flares up, when she's not around I feel ease but in a week, I would feel like I miss her and want to be back with her again... it's really confusing -- Today, I did ERP and the thought appeared less but she wants to be back with me and move in with me. And also marry me. But today I've been thinking of her flaws (angry, suspect me alot if there is another woman, use petty things when there arent any real issue.. the real issue is she is annoyed all the time). We say we love each other. I do love her. Sometimes I want to quit permanently, sometimes I don't. I'm confused, is this OCD? I don't know if I should stay with her. Thanks for reading my post. Any advice is appreciated. I'll also message this to my therapist. I dont feel distressed about breaking up, but can these thoughts lead you to breaking up? ( I think I answered my own question but need to know)
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- 24w
my girlfriend broke up with me over guilt and not wanting to hurt me because she can never be sure what she wants due to rocd. its terrible because im over here thinking that it obviously can be fixed because shes an angel and we love each other. she asked for no contact so we can move on because we’re attached to each other. tho, i really didn’t agree with her decision to break up and think it will not help at all. if not our relationship, then another. if no relationship, then ocd will latch on something else. i have ocd, i know how hard it was and is and will be in the future. i understand her, she understands me. i dont want to seem annoying and pushy for fighting for it when she asked to stop talking. i dont really know what to do, i just want her back.
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- 19w
hey you guys i’m new to the app, i just wanted to come on here and share part of what i’ve been struggling with recently- around the beginning of 2024 i started having intrusive thoughts and they completely took over my life to the point where i began planning my suicide once i had finished out some of my commitments for that year. during that time i met this girl and we began texting and keeping in touch with each other every single day since last february. (tw suicide) unfortunately i did have to spend some time in a hospital after i attempted suicide in may of 2024 and i never really knew if this girl was into me or if she even liked girls but we kept talking up until the end of october where we finally said we liked each other. immediately i could tell smth was wrong bc i was shaking and crying and completely scared because i wanted to be very clear that i couldn’t commit to a relationship and then i disclosed to her i was in the hospital in may and i still hadn’t fully recovered from that (#stillhavent #butiwillsoitsokay😛) and i felt awful that i had responded to such an amazing moment like that andever since then i had been plagued with these constant thoughts about not liking her, being straight (which i still don’t know and fully branched out into SOOCD and i have an incredibly hard time distinguishing what is OCD and what is genuinely true about my sexuality because ive never really felt like this for a girl) and for about 4 months we went out on dates where i felt absolutely horrible because i felt like i wasn’t acting like myself or i was being rude to her or i was more attracted to male passerby’s than her or i accidentally thought something about her that just felt so mean and horrible. i also convinced myself it could never work because i couldn’t picture her face and that continued for the first two months, but then i decided to call things off at the beginning of march because i just couldn’t handle debating if i actually liked her if i was gay if i was a horrible person and if i was wrong for all the things i thought every single day and currently we’re on a break because i tried to call things off and she kind of talked me out of it in a very kind and understanding way. i just hate leaving her in limbo because at the end of the day i just want her to be happy because she is an amazing incredible and sweet person and if i wasted more of her time i’d feel even more awful. kinda long lowk… if u read all this thank u and lmk what u think:)
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