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- 2y
Did my ocd mess up my relationship?
This is just kinda a rant, but any encouragement would be very much appreciated ❤️ I started dating my boyfriend when I was 16, I fell in love with him then and for the first 2 years of our relationship it was the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I’m 20 now and we’ve been together ever since then, however in the past almost two years things have been different. He has a serous heart condition that has gotten progressively worse until now he needs a heart transplant. As you can imagine that causes a ton of stress for him and me as well and is I think a large contributor to my ocd. When things started getting worse with him so did my ocd. My ocd began to center around our relationship and cause me to obsess over if I love him, am attracted to him, feel like he’s a good person, etc. there have been times were this level of obsession has taken away any positive feelings I might get from him. There have been times were I felt that we had to break up. And looking back at all my negative thoughts about him I sometimes feel like I have ruined our perfect relationship. I’ve had a crush on him since I was in 8th grade and honestly spent the first 2 years obsessed with every detail of him. He always gave me this specific feeling, like a warm summer night or, like rain and pine trees. But what if I don’t ever get that feeling back? And he’s also changing as he struggles under the weight of his health issues. I miss the adventurous, alive kid he used to be. I’m so scared that I permanently messed it up. I miss him and that feeling so much. I wish I could just freeze time and be 16 with him forever. Will I get those feelings back again?