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OCD and other people
Do you ever worry that other people are up to something? Like cheating, how do you manage the fear of a partner possibly being bad or possibly doing something bad?
Do you ever worry that other people are up to something? Like cheating, how do you manage the fear of a partner possibly being bad or possibly doing something bad?
I never knew this was a subtype of OCD for years. I remember the day it hit me and I thought it was PTSD. I spent some years getting that reinsurance from my husband if he was doing something behind my back and if he loved me. I knew he loved me but that uncertainty I wasn’t good at with sitting with. When I finally got the help I needed with the help of NOCD I had to learn to sit with that uncertainty. I will say my husband is a trooper because I had my bad days but you will see the light at the end of tunnel. Sit with this uncertainty they may or may not be be doing something. You can’t control what happens but you can control to live your life to the fullest and at the end of the day know you are doing your best. Don’t let these thoughts consume you like they did me for way to long.
Are you still on this ap? I have the same issue and would love to talk if you have time. I currently get therapy here
@Misstama65 Yeah I’m still here 🙂
@Rissa94 I would love to hear things that worked for you
@Misstama65 Well tbh my obsession was that my partner was cheating on me. It went on for a few years.my mind kept telling me he was. What helped me was searching more into ocd. I started therapy and she had me watch the show cheaters for an ERP. What helped to was reading a book called relationship OCD by Sheva Rajaee.
@Rissa94 I'll look into that. That's my focus also but it's getting better. I'm trying " maybe he is... I'll worry about it when there's proof". Stuff like that
I love my boyfriend and I think he’s a good guy but I sometimes worry that he’s hiding something from me and I don’t really know what to do about those feelings. I doubt he is actually hiding anything from me to worry about but the fear is intense sometimes.
I have this deep fear I’ll accidentally cheat on my long term partner. This fear was initially triggered a couple years ago after being at a bar with my friends where I enjoyed the attention of being flirted with by a stranger. Because of my enjoyment of receiving verbal attention, I began spiraling about what if I accidentally cheat. Since then I have made multiple confessions to my partner to seek reassurance, replayed events over and over in my head, spent hours googling/looking at reddit threads, and now I dread “bar like” situations where I know my partner won’t be around. Today I was triggered and have wasted about 4-5 hours of my day ruminating. Does anyone else with relationship ocd struggle with this fear and have any tips?
Despite the fact that I have never once acted flirtatiously with someone else over the course of my 3-year relationship, never talked to anyone inappropriately, never touched or interacted with anyone inappropriately, I have been battling constant ROCD obsessions centered around cheating ever since my partner and I got together. I am constantly worried about whether certain things are cheating: daydreaming about another person (already told my partner about this and he said it was okay and that he does it too), talking in a group chat with someone, sitting next to someone, speaking to them in person. I question my intentions. I worry that I cheated by wearing my hair a certain way in an attempt to look more attractive or by jokingly poking someone with a fake sword (despite doing it to other people too), looking through someone’s social media, etc. I have confessed so many ridiculous things to my partner and he’s always told me that none of them are cheating. I feel so guilty for being attracted to someone else, despite the fact that my partner said it was fine and normal. I have made a very very conscious effort to limit my interactions with this person. I never ever ever ever message them privately, I make an obsessive effort to NOT reply to their messages in a group server (constantly keeping track of the ratio of my replies to their messages compared to other people’s), to ignore them when I see them in person and hardly ever speak to them or initiate conversation with them. Yet I still feel like a disgusting dirty cheater who is hiding a big secret.
Hey everyone I know I’ve mentioned this before but, I wanted to share again just in case if anyone new sees this. I deal with cheating ocd really bad, like I always have thoughts about the past and such and get worried about things. I know my morals and values and I know id never ever cheat, but my mind always loves to play the “What if” game. It really sucks. My boyfriend is the sweetest and a god sent to me and he is always there for me but ugh this ocd dealing with cheating and false memory/real events kills me, anyone else relate? I dont know how to put up with it anymore, Just today I remembered I had an old twitter account which is now X, but I remembered I deleted my account a long long time ago but ugh I used to be on twitter so much awhile ago and my ocd acted up and was like “You better go check to make sure you didn’t do anything.” And I remembered I sat with myself and said “I know my morals I would never do that to him.” And then my ocd was like “Are you sure? What if you did?” Etc and my anxiety is now so bad about it now :(
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