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- 1y
rocd? intuition? i have no clue.
so i wanted to come back on here because for the past few weeks i have been struggling and today i woke up in tears, crying at my thoughts and i can’t take it anymore. my anxiety has crept up to a very intolerable level. i am having constant thoughts of leaving my relationship, monitoring my partners actions, ect. backstory: i can trace these feelings and thoughts back to something that happened within my relationship almost a month ago, my partner hurt me badly with what we think now was something related to an autistic outburst. to elaborate, his therapist and others have suspected he might be autistic due to a lot of issues like bluntness, sensory issues, not reading social cues, invalidation within our relationship. i have been with my partner for almost 4 years and through my bpd, ocd and other mental illnesses plus his it’s been so up and down and downright heartbreaking at points, we almost broke up this year due to a bad “splitting” episode i had with my bpd back in june and that was very low for me. i got my shit together and now i can say my bpd is being managed. but with his issues he still struggles with poor communication (only when he is emotionally overwhelmed it’s usually never when he is able to properly read a situation). and something happened like i said a month ago where he had a anger outburst and it hurt me quite a bit. because for the first time i wasn’t reacting. he hasn’t been in therapy long (4 months i think) because it took time for him to be evaluated and he does have adhd and depression. but ever since then i keep having these thoughts and they are constant all day long (they aren’t present if i watch my favorite movies like harry potter) but it’s like 10 times a day. the other day we had a rather intense disagreement and now I’m noticing even the slightest of conflict I can’t handle, whereas even eight months ago we were fighting and it got really loud and obnoxious and it wouldn’t really affect me. But now, since I’ve been on my healing journey, and myself work journey, I just no longer create those types of arguments or ways of communicating. Now 95% of the time I am really trying to initiate that healthy balance and it’s not like he’s not doing any work at all. He’s really pushing himself to work on himself in therapy and focus on coping skills, but I just have, these thoughts every day like I said earlier in the post I woke up this morning crying because my thoughts are so loud it physically makes me anxiously ill and start to panic now and all day until I go to sleep I’m just debating whether or not I should leave or not. I can’t do this anymore. It took me over two years to get out of these habits into actually start healthy, communicating and he’s just now started, but what’s really going on and what I just discovered is I’m trying to make him meet my needs when he’s emotionally overwhelmed and he does not communicate boundaries. For instance, that he can’t talk about the situation, whatever it might be so I’m taking that at face value and going oh he’s never going to change. What if our relationship doesn’t work out what if I just put all this effort in for nothing? And what I mean it taking it at face value is he’s not communicating that he either needs more space or he can’t talk about the disagreement and that’s exactly what happened the other day he didn’t communicate, and so he wasn’t understanding he wasn’t validating, I don’t know what I just can’t get over all of these thoughts in my head all day we’ve come really far and our arguments are nothing like they used to be. In fact, they don’t even happen but once or twice twice a month I just keep having thoughts going back-and-forth, comparing my relationship, thinking it would be better off if I just left because there’s someone who can meet my needs even though I’m expecting my partner to meet my needs when he’s emotionally overwhelmed and there’s Points not even just points where I can’t even do that for my partner if I’m not calm so my therapist says it’s really simple that we need to wait till we can calmly initiate the conversation. I don’t know I’m just really heartbroken and I don’t know what to do our relationship has ty tests like no other relationship would have and I really don’t want to be with anybody else and I can’t tell if this is my intuition screaming at me or if it’s relationship OCD again creeping back up.