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- 3y
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I hate feeling the need to confess. Based on what usually helps me, this is my recommendation - The best thing I think you can do is to delay the confession. You don’t have to decide or know whether or not you should tell him or not right now. Maybe it’s only OCD, maybe it’s something you really should talk about. But you don’t need to figure that out. right now confessing is compulsive so continue to delay it.. and if the anxiety subsides and you don’t feel the need to obsess over it anymore but you still think it’s worth talking to him about, then you can take it from there
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Hope this is helpful
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- 1y
I did a very similar thing but they dumped me the first time I snooped. they knew i was cheated on in the past & suffer with relationship ocd, but forgave me for looking at their phone, but dumped me 2 weeks later over it. do you think i should forgive myself or that they should’ve given me a chance? I get the same thoughts as you so as you know it’s not wanted & so hard to control but i feel like my ex wouldn’t hear me out & i was the one that confessed i did it in the first place right away
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- 46w
Betrayal in a relationship .. is toxic.. having OCD myself, I can’t deal with elusiveness. To me, they are head games and I’m generally, on point.. when I’m in an environment or situation where that is present.. I’m like “hey, if you talked behind my back”.. then just tell me. Transparency is pure.. and I’d settle for Pure over anything, any day.. to me.. that’s someone who really cares enough to keep a relationship pure.
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- 19w
I just got off my session today and after having a confession to my husband last night with a compulsion, he obviously is going to have more questions. My therapist says not to confess because I am growing my OCD . However, this is really OCD and is about something that actually happened. My husband said, that it sounds like I have someone in my life who is justifying withholding information or lying to him. Of course when I have my obsession compulsions, he makes sense. Can somebody help explain this to me? How is my husband not right or is he?
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- 17w
Tmi warning I was being intimate with my bf and I kept getting the name of someone else pop up, but I didn’t feel anxious. Afterwards, as much as I tried to delay confessing, I couldn’t help it. I confessed. My bf was fine he said I probably didn’t feel anxious because I’ve gotten used to the anxiety and it’s okay, it doesn’t define me any more than it would if I was anxious. A few minutes later, he got upset and said that the confession kinda ruined a blissful moment. I’m so upset that my head feels so turbulent I didn’t even notice it was a blissful moment for him and could’ve been for me. I feel so awful. I haven’t slept in a day, I can’t stop crying. My bf is afraid that because this specific name keeps popping up, it might mean something and he feels less than sometimes because of it. I know I shouldn’t have confessed but I felt so safe that it was like a dam broke loose. I feel so awful. What’s worse is that I’m still scared it means something, I’m scared that my boyfriend’s fear is right. He’s very understanding of OCD and how it manifests in me and everything, I think I just kinda messed up a sacred moment and I feel so much guilt and confusion and just horrendous. I’m not even fully anxious. I don’t know what to do. I apologized a lot but I feel like I don’t deserve him and so selfish
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- 15w
I often feel like i did something wrong even tho i am positive i didn’t, my boyfriend and i have been together for like 6 months and i’ve been completely loyal to him the whole time but recently i’ve been feeling the need to confess that i cheated on him even tho i didn’t and there’s absolutely no proof that i did something even close, i don’t talk to other men and if i do my boyfriend has full access to my phone and it’s usually a friend or me asking a simple question but i still feel the need to confess even tho i’ve done nothing wrong🥲 someone please help it’s so confusing
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