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I think every straight woman also sees their boyfriend as a friend at some points in the relationship. Some days you can be so in love, and some days those emotions aren’t as heightened. But that means nothing about your sexual orientation. YOU decide how you want to live your life, not your OCD or what your OCD makes you research.
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- 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words? it just all feels too real. It's scary and has been making me feel so down and anxious and shaky all day
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- 5y ago
I go through phases where I see my husband as a roommate. I ask myself if he's helping enough around the house. If he's actively caring for me. If he's maintaining himself. And he's also my best friend. A best friend I have four babies with. And often our intimate moments are sitting near each other when we read our kids books. Touching feet while our kids snuggle between us in bed. And telling each other how wonderful we are as we get the kids ready for school. Watching a movie with the kids. Are we ever without kids? Rarely. ❤️❤️❤️ Not all intimate moments are sexual. I highly suggest the Love Languages book.
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- 5y ago
Thank you so much. I just also suffered from ROCD and I found myself overthinking everything because I had this "Hollywood" expectation of what a relationship Should be like. And then all this other shit just came after ? can you share any more insight on the norms of a perfectly healthy relationship? :)
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- 5y ago
Heck yes. My husband and I have been married 8 years and known each other for 11. We have two living children, one deceased child, and one due in a few months. Four kids total. We BOTH have disorders. My husband has mild OCD, childhood trauma, anxiety, and depression. I have OCD, depression, and anxiety. We love and support each other. That's not to say it's not frustrating. My husband has found a perfect balance of medication, therapy, and mindfulness. I actively practice meditation, mindfulness, and see a therapist. An average day involves me getting up early and then I wake him up, where he complains that he's still waking up and plays on his cellphone for 15 minutes while I make coffee (which he hates the smell of) and glare at his slow-ass through the kitchen wall and check Facebook. Then he gets up to potty, where he will take too long (usually 5 minutes, but I am grumpy that he camped in the recliner for 25) and I will start breakfast. He will empty the dishwasher and I will tell him everything happening that day. Because he forgets. Even though I have a giant schedule board in the family room. We will listen to Weird Al and then our youngest will notice we're not in bed and come out to the kitchen. My husband will go pick him up while I finish breakfast and start prepping lunch for our oldest. Then he will wake up our oldest and they will make some fart jokes. Because we all fart when we wake up. We will collectively poke and prod her to have good hygiene and wear clothes for an hour. Then he dresses the kids, I put on deodorant, and drive the kiddo to school and hold on to the younger one, who is usually mad that his sister is leaving him. My husband works from home, so he starts down to his office. I call him 30 minutes later and I ask him what he wants from Costco/Target/Walgreens. OR, I come home and I fold laundry and occasionally ask him about something that has triggered me. And I occasionally ask him to do a load of dishes/laundry/trash on his work breaks. If I went shopping I'm pulling in around 1 and he'll help me unload the car. Then I pick the kiddo up from school, come home. We start homework, put laundry away, and my husband emerges from his work cave. Usually helping our daughter with homework that bothered her. Then we wash hands to eat and eat in front of the TV because the dining room is a disaster. Then he puts the food away. Then we take the kids to bed and read for like..30 minutes. The kids sleep in our bed, so they lean into me and my husband begs one to snuggle with him. This falls on deaf ears and I am squished to death, while I swivel my freezing feet around stick them in his calves. I usually fall asleep and so does he. Wake up and repeat. We're pretty average, in terms of affection, I think. Especially for a couple with kiddos. We mind our weak areas and are open with our kids that EVERYONE feels sad, anxious, or confused sometimes. We actively teach our kids mindfulness and meditation. We talk about how we feel and why we feel that way (in an age-appropriate/not over-sharing way. We read parenting and self-help books. We love love love our kids. And we both see therapists. And when we have had a rough patch, we saw each other's therapists together...not to point fingers, but to figure out where we had a communication breakdown. We argue. We have dealt with death. We have dealt with the intense pain of seeing each other suffer with inability to relieve that suffering. You refer to "this other shit just came after." Can you elaborate?
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That's so sweet, I would love to have this type of comfortable relationship with my boyfriend one day :) I want to become his wife in the near future I just need to get my mental health in check. And when I say "other shit" I mean my HOCD and TOCD ? it's tearing me apart and ruining everything I ever liked in life
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I know what Hocd is. What is Tocd?
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The fear of becoming transgender ??
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Ahhhhhhh. I have COCD. Are you doing ERP?
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Sorry, what is COCD? And no I'm not doing ERP. My therapist hasn't mentioned it yet :/
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- 5y ago
Contamination OCD. I worry about viruses, germs, chemicals, parasites, pee, poop, etc... Just as fun as the other types of OCD. ?
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I used to be a very intense hypochondriac as a child so I understand the struggle ?? it's really nice that you and your husband can relate on that level too. My boyfriend doesn't completely understand the concept of OCD but he tries his best
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- 17w ago
I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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Idk what else to title this. I was watching a film cooper video cuz why not and he mentioned smthn about wall paper customization and icons and stuff and I just kinda had a groinal response followed by the memory of me having my first crush on a woman (my friend at the time) that helped me figure out that I’m bi and I felt kinda intensely for her but that’s cuz a) it was new and b) we were kinda on again off again friends who haven’t spoken in a few years now and I’m over her entirely. It was toxic I think. She was too much like the person who bullied me in elementary school (they were friends as well so my mom made me cut her off which is. Fair. Made me really sad but eh that’s life) I saw her at prom cuz someone brought her. It was nice to see her but yeah that was it. And now I’m mentally comparing what I felt for women in the past (idk intense crush, listening to a lot of gay songs (think she by dodie) dressing semi masc cuz funky, we had nicknames for each other despite not dating or anything) to men (less intense crush but still big crush, I’ve only dated and kissed men so sparks rhere) and now I’m just slightly nauseous and worried that I don’t like men as much as I like women but I think that’s normal for any bi person? To have different levels of attraction to different genders? Idk I feel gross and icky now like I shouldn’t even be thinking about it or her cuz I have a bf. And I do look fondly upon it, now I’m nervous cuz I got more excited about her calling me a specific nickname than I do from my bf calling me honey even at the beginning? Honey felt more traditional and I love it but we do switch around nicknames and it’s always nice, not many butterflies anymore, and sometimes I get anxious when he does lately, if it’s a nickname in Portuguese. Or if he called me a shortened version of my name. What does that mean? I’m nervous now. I was doing half decently today now I’m nauseous again. I’m worried that cuz I liked the nicknames she and I had that means I don’t like the ones my bf and I have and that I just don’t like him or men cuz I’ve been feeling off around him. But I love when he calls me honey, it still feels good when he does it now but no butterflies. Idk what’s wrong with me. Is it even ocd at this point. Even if I do like women slightly more it doesn’t erase that I love my bf. I’m worried I’m leaning too much towards women tho and I’m a lesbian. Idk if my bi cycle is cycling or if I’m just a lesbian entirely cuz I don’t feel much when my bf takes off his shirt, sex feels different, and things feel stale and slow. But maybe that’s cuz I’m checking and comparing. Now I’m anxious fuck. I’m trying not to think about her idk why. I’m worried I still find her attractive or am attracted to her or smthn. She’s in my city. I didn’t care before but now I do. Or if I think about her I’ll think about other women and will only want to have sec with women which not really tbh. I wanna be able to enjoy sec with my bf. It just hasn’t felt right lately cuz I’ve been so depressed and obsessive. I wasn’t obsessing much last night when we had sex but it still didn’t feel passionate. It didn’t feel uncomfortable but I thought it’d be more? Idk. I know it’s normal to not feel him inside me cuz the vagina isn’t very nerved up compared to the clitoris but it felt like more the motions. But tbh. I needed it. Idk I wanted to have sex and it was a nice stress relief. I just didn’t feel butterflies which kinda bummed me out but we’ve been having sex since august so that’s normal. Idk. I haven’t been able to fantasize about sex. The fact that I’m bi makes all of this so confusing. Cuz yes hypothetically I can enjoy the thought of sex with a woman. But I don’t want to rn cuz I’m dating a man. And I can’t fantasize about sex with him cuz I’m getting intrusive thoughts about my friends and I having sex. I have this urge to watch porn cuz it’s been a while but I’m not going to. I’ve cut down a lot on masturbation. Partially cuz this partially cuz I wanna do things with my bf (when I’m mentally ok) but jow my brain is saying “Oo you think all these women are so hot you’re gonna go feral blah blah blah” and yes women are hot but I don’t wanna have sex with a woman. Idk saying women are hot doesn’t bring me anxiety but the thought of sex with one or leaving my bf and saying I’m a lesbian bother me. Cuz I know it’s not true. I love him I know that. I’d be happy if we stayed together. I wouldn’t regret a thing honestly. I like having sex with him. Idc if it’s not like porn or the movies. As long as I’m being pleasured and he’s being pleasured we’re good. That’s what sex is about. I think the loss of butterflies is normal cuz the excitement of like (sorry tmi) fingering and oral eventually wears off right? But still feels good. I don’t feel as excited about intimacy anymore cuz we have done it so often but it still feels nice. But my brain perceives that as me not liking sex with men and therefore I’m gay. No I just don’t feel the need to jump his bones every single time I see him?? Idk the friend thing is bothering me. Idk if I feel any joy behind it. The groinal response really really throws my perception off
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- 13w ago
I'm 18, and been in a relationship with my man for nearly 2 years. I started living with him around 2 months ago, and all I do is think about if he's cheating. We were long distance for a year and a half of our relationship, maybe seeing eachother once every month or two. I decided to move in with him, and ever since all I can think about is if he's cheating or watching porn. When he's in another room I think he's doing something wrong, I have to check on him every ten minutes to ease my anxiety. I didn't have this problem before moving in. Granted he has talked to some girls on his phone, even having his ex on his phone (didn't do anything bad) and he is porn addicted though he is getting better for me. It's gotten so bad I want to leave him. A couple days ago I broke up with him and it absolutely broke my heart, I couldn't bare it so I gave him a month to show me he can do better, and for me to work on myself. If I'm still unhappy with us I'm going to leave. I love this boy more than anything. I'm scared to be without him, this is my first real relationship. At this point I refuse to even sleep until he is sleeping. I don't want to start over, I don't want to leave him, but I really can't take this pain it's causing me. It's all I think about. I've convinced myself so many times that he's cheating, but I know he wouldn't. I question whether it's anxiety or intuition. Maybe I just know deep down he really is cheating and I just don't want to believe it. I don't know. I don't think he would do that, but at the same time he's really into women. I hate that he looks at other girls in a sexual way, it bothers me so much, and we talk about it often, but with it being an addiction it's difficult. He has gotten a lot better since we have talked about it. He understands I have an issue and is usually happy to talk about it over and over and promise me over and over that he's not cheating. He allows me to have his phone whenever I want and everything, I have no reason to think he's cheating, but I can't get over it. It's not fair to him either. How do I deal with this? How do I stop hurting so much?
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