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- 6y
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Well I’m not an OCD specialist or relationship therapist but ur relationship sounds very untrusting even without OCD being involved. He should understand why you don’t trust him and he should trust you. In a relationship that’s how it works. My boyfriend is out clubbing tonight and my OCD goes through the roof saying stuff like “what if he cheats on you and can’t remember” or “what if he finds another girl attractive” but I know that is OCD because I do trust him. You can tell the difference from OCD thoughts and just generally not trusting them anyway like I know he wouldn’t do anything and he loves me very much and understands my OCD thoughts and supports me. But I can’t help OCD thoughts popping up in my head, I don’t the thoughts but they stick in my head because OCD is evil and tries to take away the things you love the most.
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- 6y
I was forced to explain my OCD due to my thoughts getting so bad I couldn’t take it anymore. I was really crying and I tried to keep it a secret for a bit but it didn’t work. I didn’t say it was related to relationships but I have had the theme and all themes like (HOCD, ROCD, PureO) he responded by giving me a hug and basically said you need to get help and I will support you no matter what your thoughts say.
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- 6y
Oh that must be so difficult :( how long have you been with him? Trust me our relationship isn’t perfect my OCD has tested our relationship many times!
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- 6y
I’ve had similar experience except with trust issues with my boyfriend. I’ve caught him messaging another girl and after a huge debate I decided to give him another chance ... this was 4 months ago. I think that breach in trust exacerbated my OCD because now I’m always thinking, that if he doesn’t text me back right away, or I see him active on social media and not replied to be that he is talking to another girl ... this has put a lot of strain on our relationship where he’s getting fed up with me alway picking fights and saying “i know u fucked up, but if you want to be with me you have to trust me” and I’m really struggling with deciphering: is this OCD ? Or is this reality ? Any advice ?
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- 6y
Wow, I just joined today after therapy but your original post is exactly what I have. I have exactly these thoughts and my head likes to mess with timelines too. I can't get it out of my head and it drives me mad. I am trying to do ERP to help and fortunately my bf is extremely supportive but it's really reassuring to find I am not the only one with these thoughts..
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- 6y
How did u explain to your boyfriend that you have ocd ? Did you explain it’s related to relationships? How did he respond ?
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- 25w
I’m a good man and I know that. My OCD revolves around relationships. While dating someone a truly enjoy, I find myself needing to compulse everything on my mind or else I feel like I’m being a liar or keeping secrets. I also am pretty confident I suffer from false memory ocd. I don’t like to put a label on things but I’m 99.9% sure I do. My compulsions a lot of times come from things I’m not even sure are real. The more thought I put into them, the more I start to believe they are real. One of the worst compulsions I had in my relationship was I had a thought “what if I find my ex more attractive” and “what if I thought the sex with them was better”. I ended up compulsing these things to my gf. After lots of time to think and get a ahold of myself I was able to remind myself that these things weren’t true and I was just in a downward spiral. There was a 2-3 month period where every time I was relieved of something then I would instantly think of something else. These compulsions have caused insecurity in my gf and I feel like a terrible person. Never meant to hurt her at all and was just trying to find a sense of relief. While I know it is not true, I can’t fix things with words and I feel terrible. I would love to hear from people with tricks and strategies that can help. I love my gf and want to fix things and understand this is not a relationship fixer app but I would like to know what are some ways you are able to deal with these kind of things.
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- 24w
Hey guys! My boyfriend has said recently that he doesn't know if he's strong enough to continue with our relationship because of my OCD. He wants to see me overcome my symptoms and learn to live a healthy life with OCD, but my anxieties and obsessions are starting to really affect his life. I understand his reasoning, it's hard to see someone you care about struggle with OCD, especially when it starts to affect you too. I'm asking for tips to deal with my compulsions in the relationship. I HAVE to know the answer to things and sometimes that leads into arguments because even with apologies and discussions I can't let things go, even if they genuinely don't matter or are miniscule issues we have. It's a healthy relationship otherwise but I feel horrible because it's impacting him so negatively, that's the absolute last thing I want to happen. I care for him deeply and he cares for me too, so I don't want my OCD to be a reason we break up but I fear it's headed in that direction. I'm starting therapy soon, but until then what are some things I can do to stop my ROCD from impacting him? I know sitting in the guilt and anxiety of not completing my obsessions will help, but I'm wondering if there are other things I can do to maybe remedy some of the damage already done.
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- 21w
I have had diagnosed OCD for a while now and I’ve been really struggling with my rocd. My bf and I have been dating for almost 2 years now and it has been great mostly. (I say mostly because of I’m being honest the bad parts are me causing issues due to my rocd) lately I’ve been struggling to trust him in that he will follow through with his word. This was triggered because we had a wedding and a brunch to go to (he doesn’t know the person getting married but was going just to go with me) and he ended up not being able to go due to finals and group projects he had to end up doing work for. This is a completely understandable and reasonable excuse not to be able to attend something, but my brain is now making me feel like he would do that to anything I need him for. And he literally doesn’t. Like we’re going out of town to see family this summer and I’m scared he’ll flake out. We’ve already gotten plane tickets and everything but my brain is like what if . Again it’s so stupid because he comes through almost all the time I invite him to something and when he can’t go it’s usually due to something pretty reasonable that he didn’t foresee. Like he comes to all my family holiday events, goes and runs errands and does things when I ask, comes over everyday to spend time with me. The only times he can’t come to my house is when he has no gas money. We’re both in college and his parents don’t really support him at all so he has to use all his money he makes working during the summer towards expenses and doesn’t often get to buy things for himself and when we are in our hometown, I go to his house more because my parents pay for everything and I help him save his money because he if doesn’t have any he is truly out of luck. Soem days he won’t even eat because he had to use his money on rent of something. But he still manages to go above and behind for me. Always includes me in things he loves to do, picks flowers for me anytime he sees one and buys them when he does have money, he always writes me notes and does sweet things that he knows will make me laugh. He is such a blessing, but of course my brain only focuses on the negative :( he’s so patient with my ocd but I do get tired of bugging him with it.
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