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- 1y ago
Is it normal to notice flaws in a partner you love?
Anyone ?
I been noticing flaws on my bf that don’t bother me at all I love him the way he is but I feel bad that I notice something is that normal ?
Anyone ?
I been noticing flaws on my bf that don’t bother me at all I love him the way he is but I feel bad that I notice something is that normal ?
I used to wonder this as well! I think our OCD has made us super in tune with thinking about anything and everything and we judge ourselves for thinking about anything and everything too! Your boyfriend - Other people look at themselves or you and think hmmmmm why do her eyes look like that, or her smile, or she’s cute, or hot! But then they continue. They usually don’t stop and think oh why did I think that? What does that mean? Do I like them? Do I hate them? Your ocd is making you over analyze when it’s completely normal to observe someone’s face or body and wonder why it is the way it is or what it means, but just don’t judge yourself for thinking these thoughts because they’re just thoughts! He can’t hear them lol and you’ll also be glad you can’t hear his thoughts, we’re all human and it doesn’t mean you love him any less!
These thoughts, personally, always have me feeling like I am stuck in a relationship that doesn’t make me as happy as I want to be. I think ocd, in this sense, rocd, changes our idea of satisfaction when we meet our partners. We should enjoy our time with these people, but we constantly think and think until we no longer see this person as “perfect” so they aren’t good enough. I don’t even realize I’m looking for “just right” or “perfect” when I do this. It sucks
Yeah cuz I’m constantly overanalyzing so I pick my boyfriend apart mentally trying to “prove” he’s the right one
Sometimes I feel so evil and disgusting for picking my boyfriend apart. It scares me and I feel horrible. With time, I’ve been able to identify when OCD creeps in and starts to take over:)
Does ROCD make you notice your partner’s physical flaws? I notice things I never even noticed before. This is killing me. I feel like if I love my husband I should see no physical flaws.
Does anyone else catastrophize any little flaw that they don’t quite like about their partner?? There are things that my partner does from time to time that are weird and sometimes a turn off, and when I notice those quirky things he does I start to spiral because if those things bug me or turn me off slightly then maybe I don’t like him and I need to leave. I couldn’t even begin to try and explain the goofy behaviour because it’s so mundane and unimportant. It’s literally just Him being himself, and being quirky and different, and he’s a little more nerdy and awkward. And it hurts me so much because he is so amazing, but I catastrophize these flaws into automatic major deal breakers because they feel like “icks”. Idk what to do. Sometimes I need to remind myself that I’m not going to find a single person on the face of this earth that will be perfect. There isn’t someone that I will like everything about. Does anyone else relate or am I going crazy?
I love my bf a lot (at least I think so) but I really struggle at times because I obsess over every little thing he does that I find weird or cringy or annoying or unattractive. a lot of times I’m just blowing things out of proportion. But the problem is, sometimes these thoughts don’t feel intrusive, it’s not like my brain is telling me something is annoying when it isn’t. There are definitely times where he does do things that I cringe at or feel annoyed by, or I just have this weird feeling of being put off. And those are the things I obsess over. So now I’m worried. I’m not sure how to describe my thoughts and feelings, I guess it’s more that something he does will trigger me (i.e. he does something weird or cringy or annoying) and I respond (i.e. thinking and feeling weirded out, annoyed, or cringing) and then all I focus about is the weird things he did and the fact I feel that way about them, and I start obsessing and playing over the situation in my mind, and I worry that his actions will make me not like him entirely, and I start putting him under a mental microscope, picking apart everything. And I worry that me not liking those things is bad or wrong or it’s a sign I don’t like him. And I don’t know how to move on, because my brain wants to like everything, but it can’t, and it can’t move past that, and I don’t know what to do. I can’t get over all these thoughts and feelings and I worry that it’s not OCD because it’s not necessarily entirely intrusive and idk if it’s bad to feel this way, and even if someone told me it wasn’t bad to feel this way, I would continue to worry that I just don’t like him and or that I wouldn’t be able to handle those “flaws” forever.
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