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- 2y
I beg help, ROCD or is it not a match?
I KNOW IT'S A LONG TEXT BUT PLS I'M DESPERATE. I need an opinion asap please. I'm an 18yo girl who's going through her first relationship and I'm really confused. I've never been diagnosed with any type of OCD but I've been a perfectionist my whole life and prone to overthinking. lately my thoughts have been torturing me for days since I'm not sure if I'm settling with my bf or if ROCD and my fears are self-sabotaging a promising relationship. I have been locking myself in my room compulsively googling about all my doubts while my thoughts and anxiety are consuming me. I feel terribly anxious and guilty all the time that I'm not with him. As background info I met my boyfriend in a club around four months ago. We're keeping a long distance relationship since he lives in a neighbor city and comes to see me every once in awhile (because my parents don't agree on our relationship due to the distance between us and don't believe it can work because of it, so they don't allow me to go to his city either). He catched feelings for me so fast, to the point he is convinced I am the love of his life. At the beginning, I was very attached to him too, he's a lovely, caring and supportive person, although we have different interests. Some time ago (can't remember exactly when), due to an Instagram reel (yes it might sound stupid) I started questioning if I really loved him or if I was just in love with the idea of him and the way he treats me. I started spiralling over if I should break up with him or not, since I had literally no reasons to (I mean, he never treated me wrong and he is actually a great guy, but we have different sense of humour for example and it's hard for me to imagine a future with him atm), and I didn't want to hurt him either because he was very attached and I wasn't that sure. He asked me several times to be his gf and I replied to him I wasn't ready yet and he kind of understood me but I know he felt hurt by the rejection. Finally I said yes on January 13th, after seeing him in person the day before and spending a lovely day, although the next day I felt incredibly anxious. he does a lot of things for me and I feel like I don't do anything in return. I feel like he loves me more than I do. and sometimes I feel like I'm settling when, for example, I don't find him very intellectually interesting or not sharing the same interests (although we support eachother). I've catched myself several times comparing our relationship with other couple's or with love songs, comparing my partner to other guys on the street or other guys I know. also I've been considering the possibility for it being an infatuation. I'm also aware that my lost feelings can be partly due to the distance, the lack of physical contact very often and my parents being against the relationship, but it gets really confusing when I meet with him, because we have really good times and I think he's really attractive too. he also makes me feel safe and understood, we communicate everything to eachother (except of this thing I'm going through) and we don't miss a single day without texting how our day went. our relationship looks like a really healthy one and even movie-like from the outside. I enjoy his company and texting him every day. that's what's keeping me from breaking up, as well as I feel like I would never find such a good guy and I would get back my decision. but when I'm not with him I start questioning if it's truly a perfect match. my triggers are people or social media posts speaking about relationships, other guys flirting with me, finding other guys more interesting, attractive or holding the same interests as I do, not feeling jealousy when he speaks to other girls, sometimes not feeling anything at all for my boyfriend, not seeing a future with him (although he's planning on moving to the city I live next year to study a career, which adds pressure to me), or even imagining I would move on faster if we broke up. I know he has been hurt before by other relationships and I don't want to be a bad gf, my intentions never were damaging him, so I need help to figure out if I should break up as soon as I can or if it's just my fears, self-sabotaging tendencies, ROCD, attachment style and/or fear of commitment that are playing tricky games with me. it's my first experience and I need help so thanks in advance!