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Hi jazzz! Don't beat yourself up for not realizing what kind of person he is, it happens to people all the time. He's just trying to get a rise out of you because he has nothing better to do. Do your best to remember you're important, and he's not. ♥
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Yeah you can't control your past, only what you do going forward. I understand, I got back with that girl when I was at a low point too so I understand. I'm sorry you went through all of that.
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Thank you djsognal!! I know, sometimes all this alone time makes my thoughts wander. A lot of my OCD reassuring seeking is around topics and past events that I fear will come to ruin my life in the future. I’m young so I never want anything to mess up my life. Even though nothing has happened I still confess and seek reassurance as best I can to I guess make sure I’m still on the safe track for my future or to reassure myself that the past is the past. It’s a vicious cycle. I was once a good girl and I became rebellious and made stupid decisions over the years, especially in college. Then on top of how I was culturally raised, it makes me feel like I don’t deserve marriage or anything good in life. It will be a long journey before I find self love again.
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Maybe not as long as you think. You seem very intelligent to me. This all can be hard to come, and I think you and I struggle with the same things. Just do your best, understand that you can't control everything. Everyone deserves to be loved.
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Thank you ?? I had opened up to my ex about my past traumas and it was all just spit back in my face and he would say “idk how I can marry you”. It really broke me down. First few years out of college I was in debt from traveling the world and avoiding law school, so a friend suggested some sugar dating app to me and they made it seem like dating not prostitution. Gave it a try since I was working 2 jobs and exhausted and not only was it not like dating but I was treated like a prostitute in a motel and a bar basement in 2 encounters, never getting dates or allowance as promised and then told why should I be paid since I drive a Mercedes. And I didn’t enjoy one moment of it. It took away my innocence in a way. Most traumatizing experience of my life that I put myself through when I was vulnerable with low self esteem. I always confess this but not an easy thing to talk about. Makes me feel like a horrible sleazy person. I think deep down I stayed in the abusive relationship because I fear dating again and opening up to someone in case I’m rejected. If I could go back I’d get a third job on top of the two to help pay my debt. I know many girls do that stuff and worse but I have such pure intentions and a guilty conscience. Hard to have self worth and confidence when I keep beating myself up over the past.
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- 24w
Hi I’ve never posted before but I need to talk with other people that have this too because it’s hard to explain to other people without ocd. I was in a relationship for awhile and we started dating before either of us knew I had ocd. Anyway I have a really bad episode of it that led me to go get on medication and got into therapy. My ocd can have some really taboo themes and thoughts which I have learned is just what comes with the illness. The problem though is when I was really struggling one of my compulsions was confessing and reassurance seeking specifically to the guy I was dating because I trusted him. We both knew at this point that I had ocd and it affected many parts of our relationship particularly our intimacy which he made me feel bad about. He started calling me crazy, just joking, but still. Eventually I start feeling better and we start being intimate again and the day after he breaks up with me. About a month later after I hear he went on a date with another girl (we live together) he tells me he couldn’t be intimate with me because of my intrusive thoughts. We still live together with 2 other roommates so I still see him everyday. We try to be cordial with each other. I still have my moments though I’m still dealing with my ocd and a breakup seemingly caused by it and I cry a lot. Some months go by and he’s dating this other girl and I end up making out with one of my other roommates. I have no idea if my ex knew but the next day when it was only me in the house he starts screaming “THOSE MOTHER FUCKERS” and starts slamming shit. I tell my roommate about this and he and I are both kind of scared of him. He started acting really cold to us after. Then the night before my graduation my two roommates moved out so it’s just me and my ex in the house. In the middle of the night he comes downstairs and in front of my door calls me a horrible name relating to my intrusive thoughts. I open the door and say fuck you and he says you took my fucking friends. I said I didn’t take shit from you and he says yeah and goes upstairs and screams BINGO for some reason. He did it in the middle of the night when we were alone and I had no one to talk to or go to. He blames me because a lot of our friends sided with me in the breakup because they knew what I was going through. He had told me that I could never speak if my intrusive thoughts to anyone including my therapist (I did don’t worry) but he had made me feel so ashamed more than I was already. Also the next day he left a mess for me to clean up since I was the last one to move out. I’m coming to terms with the fact that on top of this awful experience with ocd that I may have been emotionally abused as well.
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Ok, so when I was in high school I became very obsessive with love. I didn’t love myself and I found this boy who I wanted to love me. I had myself convinced we would get married. He didn’t even know who I was and I’ll admit, I completely invaded his privacy. I memorized his schedule, I put myself in places I knew he’d be or if I knew he was somewhere I’d go. I truly never meant harm, I just wanted him to love me and I thought that me stalking his life would get me into it and get him to love me. It got to the point where I even stalked other girls I thought he liked and told them that we were a “thing” so that they would stop talking to him even though we were definitely not a thing. I struggle to release the guilt of that overall because I feel so so so awful about it, but I know I never meant harm. Anyways, now that we are no longer together, I have this fear that if he never would’ve given me the attention I desired that I would’ve kept going. I would’ve started to get harmful and that I would’ve gone as far as harming people around him in order to get myself into his life. It makes me feel so awful but I truly do feel like I would’ve kept going and kept myself in his life even if he would’ve gotten a different girlfriend. Idk, I just really struggle because I don’t feel as though this was ocd and that maybe I truthfully am a horrible person who does need serious help because I stalked him so much and obsessed over him and crossed his privacy boundary. I’m so afraid to the extent that I would’ve gone had it not become us dating.
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since one of my biggest fears/events of my reocd happened (not the way i thought it would happen!) i've been healing and understanding a lot of things (like the fact i was the one being abused in my old relationship) but thanks to that my ocd has been trying to launch on a new event and i don't know. i was in a cut and off relationship with my ex three years ago, this happened when i was an older teenager and really confused. during the time i cut off momentary with him i started to get compliments and cute messages in an anonymous confession page and used to post them replying in a playful way or just with genuine curiousity. the thing is, i got with my ex once again in secret for the last time but honestly i'm realizing lately that i didn't love him anymore and being with him made me feel terrible but i wasn't strong enough to leave him once for all. i didn't tell any of my friends about this because they hated him (for a good reason) and i was also disappointed on myself for this. he pushed me a lot make it public and i would say to him a lot of times that i wasn't sure. the thing is, that i still got that type of messages on that anonymous confession page and still publish them on my profile while being with my ex in secret, but eventually i stopped doing that. then i finally left my ex (was horrible). but since what happened to me, i cant stop thinking if that was cheating – it was cheating? i'm not sure anymore and i feel like im going to have a relapse.
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