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Yeah. OCD makes us all doubt... Just try and remind yourself of all the good things.... if you can... Cute pic of you two ❤️
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- 3y
Tell him this. Communicate, be vulnerable, don’t give up ❤️🩹
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- 3y
I told myself I didn’t love him over and over again for 2 years now… how can I fix the damage that I’ve done.. can therapy even fix it anymore? 😞 I look at him or other people and feel no joy anymore… I constantly think negatively towards everything and everything… I can’t even remember why I love him in the first place bc I was so focused on his flaws for far too long…. I am convinced I’m only with him for the wrong reasons. I am always around people and due to that I never can cry on my own….. I am worried that I just don’t have interest in him anymore even though I know I am still depressed. I just don’t wanna lose my partner. But then I think about how I might be with him for the wrong reasons… I had a clarity moment but… it didn’t last long..
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- 3y
It’s like I really don’t love him anymore…. He said I looked so depressed and sad yesterday… I don’t like that I feel like this…
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I don’t wanna give in but the feelings feel so powerful…… I hate it… I really believe I don’t love him… 😞 please I wanna stay and fix any problems or issues my partner and I have or any issues I have… I just don’t wanna let him go… I thought of him not being with me anymore and that made me very sad… 😢
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Having this conversation could do wonders. Believe it or not, but I am actually going through something similar but in this case, I am your partner. My boyfriend broke up with me a few weeks ago due to his own depression and not being able to see a future anymore or love himself, let alone love me. He pushed and pushed and now we aren’t together but I know he’s not in the right space to make such detrimental decisions. So although we are apart, I stay, and I support. Because I love him. And I know he loves me, but he can’t see it right now. Having this conversation with your partner could give you the space you need to heal and put all of this into perspective on your own. If you’re in the relationship you can’t give 100% of yourself to your healing because you’re constantly giving half of yourself to your partner. It will get better for you and your relationship, take the time to see if you still love him but mostly to love yourself first. If it works out then that’s ideal! But if not, you know you’re working towards healing on a new path. All of this is easier said than done of course and it is indeed heartbreaking. Speaking from my current experience, it’s not easy. At all. But love is strong, you need to be strong enough to hold it together too and right now your relationship with yourself needs that strength. Be strong friend ❤️
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But I don’t wanna break up… we live together. Not being with him will make me sad… I just want to love him like before.. it’s like my symptoms of ROCD is gone…
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@7710 ❤️ It’s the same for us. We share a home too but taking shifts in it recently. I suppose ask yourself why you don’t wanna break up, and ask yourself how you can make changes to love him like before, what has changed.. have you tried couples therapy? No relationship is ever free of these problems, this will work out for you.
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@LifeGoesOn I don’t even know how much couples therapy would cost… plus it’s hard to think why i don’t wanna break up since I’ve been so negative for so long…
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@7710 ❤️ Things to consider; Do you not wanna break up because - It’s what you know, you’re comfortable? You’ve been in it for so long that its just part of who you are? You’re afraid of change? You do still love him and your OCD is lying? Your relationship brings you joy? You can’t imagine life without him? Your future is still bright? You don’t want to hurt him? None of these need to answered right away. And there’s no right answer.. but consider them, sit with these thoughts, consider each one as a possibility and feel which ones are your truth. None of them could be, all of them could be. Sit and write a list of all the parts about your relationship that bring you joy. Maybe sit and write a list of all the things you could do to improve how you feel about it. But either way, be open and communicate this with your partner. Show him you want it and you’re working on it. He will appreciate that. But also accept that this process could change his mind too. Either way, you should not accept that feeling miserable is your fate - you are capable and deserve much more ✨
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@LifeGoesOn That… that all freaks me out…
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@LifeGoesOn I am worried that I am with him for the wrong reasons… I don’t want this to be true… I have thought of nothing but negative things about my partner for 2 years now 😢 If I just listened and gotten therapy I know i would love him again bc when I don’t focus on it I know I love him. He got me this amazing Valentine’s Day card that I kept looking at and smiling at. Please… I don’t wanna leave him bc I know I still have feelings for him deep down. 😢
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You'll be fine, love comes and goes in waves.
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Please my ROCD symptoms are gone! I’m fully convinced I don’t want or even love my partner!!!… I am not doing good! I’ve never felt this for him before!! I had clarity moments a few times this month! He got me an adorable valentines card that I really love and held on to. This can’t be happening happening!? I constantly have theses feelings that I don’t love him! Now I believe it! I have no intrusive as much anymore! I just wanna be with him again like before please! I don’t wanna leave! But the I freaked out I’m with him for the wrong reasons….. I rather deal with the anxiety more than anymore!
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If you feel it would make you happy, then stay. If you feel you’d be unhappy, then I’m afraid that might not be a good enough reason to stay. Space might also put your feelings into perspective. Your love might come soaring back, or you might realise that your thoughts were not in fact OCD and were your truth. Love comes in waves for sure and over the time of life, you won’t love your partner each and every day. You must weigh up what feels right. No matter what you do here, it is the right answer. Have you tried therapy? Or considered it? I know it can be expensive depending on where you’re from (it is here too!) but an alternative might help (Better Help for example). I know this comment might seem flippant or unhelpful but that’s not what I’m trying to instil. Your relationship has grown now and changed, either way it will never be like it was before. But you can work at it, each and every day to make it work. Love doesn’t just happen, it’s not that easy and yes it hurts. But if you truly love them, it’s worth all of this. That’s just up to you to decide however. Nobody can make that decision for you. You have the strength to get through all of this. This will pass, and you’ll never have to relive this exact moment ever again. This will not last forever.
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- 24w
I know it’s long but plz read :( have been having really bad ocd about my relationship and my partner and it has gotten worse and worse over the span of like about nine months I’d say. I do acknowledge there are flaws and legit issues about him and the relationship like there are with anyone but I also know ocd has clouded my judgement and perception by analyzing everything and compulsions. For a while I kept feeling this need to get out which I know was ocd. I was really scared to spend the weekend with him because I thought I would just be annoyed and irritated cause it’s been that way for a while but he also was going through a period of high stress so maybe I was resenting him for that and I also wasn’t communicating how I should have been when I was upset because I’ve done that too much in the past. This weekend I was told in therapy to just be in the moment and not have to worry about trying to answer the question of do I love him or should I break up. It did help but It’s weird cause this weekend ended up better but I also was kind of numb? Like I was enjoying myself but didn’t feel what I always have felt in the past? Anyway, I am really anxious because i feel like if I loved him I would be supportive of when his parents compliment him or when he does well at something when instead all I think of are that I’m not happy or annoyed because of things he does that upset me or make me mad and it’s like that’s the only way my brain wants to see him as a person. Or when he is upset it feels like I don’t care like I used to because I think of how he doesn’t deserve this when he does this or he shouldn’t have this when he is like this etc. Why does my brain automatically go there? That’s horrible! I feel like I should be excited for him, rooting for him. But it also feels like I do care for him? But my thoughts keep changing. I am afraid I only am with him because I love that he loves me and how he treats me. This makes me feel selfish cause I can’t do that. I notice I still like when he cuddles me and is sweet to me and does fun things watching movies etc. And that’s not how it used to feeel which scares me because I don’t want to be without him. I also love his parents am I only with him cause of how his parents treat me? I feel so selfish and like I have to tell him and break up with him cause it’s the right thing to do. I never used to feel like this. I’m scared. Is it possible I’m just I’ve been mad and resenting how it’s been cause he’s been stressed mix with my ocd? My therapist said relationships can go through phases. Can I fall back in love with him again? I feel like I have to try to start with someone else like this is too far gone. I don’t want to stay in something where I don’t feel toward him the way I want to but I really don’t want to leave him. I feel like such an awful person cause he doesn’t deserve this and is so caring and loving despite everything the major thing that bugs me is how he gets irritable a lot which is an imperfection that makes me get anxious and question him😭 trying not to read into this and just follow what the therapist said but this is scaring me because I feel like if I loved him I wouldn’t think like this or feel like this.
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- 23w
My brain keeps comparing how I felt then with the same thoughts to now and how it is diff now to prove it had changed. I’m feeling like I know it isn’t right and that maybe I’d pair better and I want to be with someone who is good for me but I also don’t want to break up and can’t tell if that’s the ocd using his faults against me. I feel like if I were to tell someone I have no feelings at all for him anymore I’d know I’d be lying and doesn’t feel right but when I say the opposite it doesn’t feel right either. I’m also worried that this time it is real and it’s the guilt of not telling him that’s making the ocd worse not that it’s just ROCD. My thoughts are also saying so many diff things I’m confused. It feels like I can’t connect to him anymore or like I don’t have empathy which scares me cause I know I did before and I felt it but is it just that I’m frustrated w some of the issues? But it’s upsetting it feels like I don’t have the endearing feelings and love I felt and I want it to come back but then I also think I don’t cause then it will prevent be from seeing what else is out there And the thing is looking back on how it was I feel like I could def see how that was ocd but this is different… and like I at least felt I knew I loved him or wanted to be with him and i had thoughts of wanting to be with someone who this or someone who this but I didn’t actually want it and now it feels like this time I rly do mean it like I want to find better qualities but I still don’t wanna move on from him and my brain is like wel that’s how everyone feels when they breakup regardless…it rly doesn’t feel like ocd anymore 😭 and my thoughts keep saying if you don’t you don’t like this or that and it most likely won’t change cause you have been with him so long why are you with him and then I feel guilty like I need to tell him
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- 22w
I broke up with my boyfriend today because of how bad my anxiety had gotten I couldn’t tell what was my heart and what was my head. I’m heartbroken because I feel like I lost my best friend and I truly do have love for him and want him in my future. I want to spend the rest of my life with him. We broke up because I’m not on medication for my anxiety and have a doctor’s appointment coming up on Wednesday to see about getting some. I still feel anxious after our breaks but I feel guilty to admit that I do feel better. I’m still just anxious in general a little and I don’t know why. We had decided to stay in touch but not on a daily or even weekly basis, just because there is no hate in our relationship just pure love. I’m just so scared and sad that I really will lose him and be all alone.
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