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Is my compulsion love? Help
I’m really fucking worried that I don’t love my girlfriend and my compulsion is to love her or say that I do. It puts a pit in my stomach to think about and I’ve been falling back into old compulsions. I’m scared that I’m falling out of love with her even though she’s done nothing wrong and she’s so funny and smart and treats me with so much respect. We’ve been through so many rough patches (mostly with my mental health and OCD) and we’re moving in together at the end of the year. I’m so scared to lose her but I’m also scared that I want to lose her. Sometimes I feel calm when these thoughts happen and then I get scared about the calmness of it and then I freak out because I’m thinking I’m not in love with her. Sometimes when I say I love her I get a pit and the constant thought of “no you don’t no you don’t no you don’t”. I always make sure to take care of her and to cuddle and kiss her when I have the urge when I’m around her, and she sexually satisfies me, even if I’ve also been having a lot of fears of in my transition (MTF) that I’m going to become only attracted to men but also that doesn’t make much sense in that I used to get butterflies with her, and now I still sometimes do but I know that at least with the longer a relationship goes the less butterflies happen. I don’t know how I can just be content. I get scared that if I’m not obsessing over her then I don’t care. She’s most of what I think of but I don’t know if that’s a compulsion. I’m scared if I don’t think of her I’m going to forget her. Maybe it’s because we haven’t had a lot of time to be intimate/go on dates? I just need help because it’s gotten really really bad the past few days/week. I can’t stand the idea of not being with her, but also can’t stand the idea of being with her. These are the thoughts that had me in a mental hospital and I can’t put her through this again. I cried a few times recently about how much I love and care about her and when she talks to me about how she appreciates me I tear up and I think it’s because I care but what if it’s because I don’t and I feel guilty that I don’t? Please help. (P.S. idk why it’s not showing up but I’d like the LGBTQ+ with OCD tag, I think a queer perspective would help too as I am bi and trans (or at least thinking about being trans and scared that I’m only gay sometimes.)