- Date posted
- 1y
ROCD nightmare, need advice
so my lovely bf and i have been dating officially 7 months, but the whole time about a year. he is amazing. i have an intense fear of him cheating on me or me cheating on him. my compulsion is to check his likes (which i’m very ashamed of), and i’ve been doing well the past week or so /not/ doing it until tonight. i gave in to the urge tonight and lurked and found something that is sending me on a huge spiral. initially it was him just liking a girls tweet about her close friends story, which i would then imply he understands bc he must be on her close friends, and then questioning why, etc. over text he could tell i was weird so i opened up about my ocd for the first time, no specifics but just telling him i’m struggling knowing what’s real and what isn’t. he wasn’t understanding at all and made me feel so weird, said it really worried him he went to bed and i went back to the girl’s twitter account and kept checking all the likes on her media. he hasn’t liked any recent selfies but i found a nude of hers he liked 2 years ago, and a profile photo she had of the two of them together 6 years ago. i’ve never met this girl and don’t know their connection but i have a pit in my stomach. i can’t stop shaking and thinking that he wants to cheat on me with her, or is cheating on me with multiple women just thru online stuff like insta dms and twitter. i want to check his phone so bad but i know it won’t really help me. i’m feeling so intensely distressed and disgusting and hopeless to say the least and i have no idea how to react or how to even bring this up. he is an AMAZING partner otherwise and my best friend, but he once had an abusive ex that would emotionally and physically abuse him and accuse him of cheating. i am so scared of being that. and i also am afraid of bringing this up and somehow being labeled as controlling or untrusting or even abusive. like obviously it’s not right of me to be checking his likes and i know that. it’s also not right of him to be making gestures (bc we all know a like is so much more than giving a tap) to a girl he would probably label as his “friend” that i’ve never met that he is attracted to and has some kind of history with, even if it was only friendship. we’ve never talked about those kind of boundaries before, but he seemed like a great guy and i thought it mostly went without saying. i wanna respect myself, but not self sabotage and lose a good thing acting from a place of hurt. please help :(