Does anyone else feel like this?

Does anyone else feel like they are walking on eggshells being super careful about every interaction with anyone but their partner? I feel like I have to monitor what I say/how I react if I ever have an interaction with someone of the opposite gender who isn’t my partner. For example, I end up feeling so guilty for finding another person of opposite gender funny? And my brain attacks me and says I should only find my partner the funniest. And when I’m not currently ruminating/ doing a compulsion I can literally FEEL it searching for something to latch onto and it’s so exhausting

Username: OCDoesntcontrolmeOCDoesntcont...

Date posted: 26w ago

ROCD can be hard, I try to use the scrambling as signs that I did nothing wrong and it's my OCD. I also try to frame what I'm worrying about as a friend coming to me to ask for advice, since I can give others a lot more compassion than I can give myself

Username: JulioKelleJulioKelle

Date posted: 26w ago

It’s weird, the brain just sends alert signals all the time for me. Like oop, you should be careful!!! When it’s just like I look at someone while talking or oop why’d you look??? It’s like trying to tell you that something is dangerous when in reality… nothing is wrong! So sometimes, it’s hard to do, just accept that this is what’s going on for RIGHT NOW (emphasis on right now and not forever) and then make it a joke. Or make it a mental “spam” like emails. It’ll take practice and patience. But be gracious to yourself!

Username: Just another...

Date posted: 3y ago

I have such an irrational fear of emotionally hurting my fiancé that I have completely stopped talking to women as a whole. It’s not that I want to but I feel like if I have a conversation with a woman, I’ll overthink everything I said to make sure I wasn’t flirty or too nice and it’s gotten to the point where I rather not even talk to them. But I feel like this makes me look so awkward to people and I don’t know what to do :/

Username: Romans510

Date posted: 3y ago

Idk how to word this, but how do you think of or interact with your partner without triggering obsessions? I feel like my anxiety is getting to a point where I’m just triggered by even the thought of him and it makes it difficult. Idk how to stop the cycle once it gets to this point and just wondered if it made sense to anybody else?

Relationship OCD

Username: AnonOCDsufferer

Date posted: 3y ago

I hate that I dread spending time with my partner! I get so anxious that I might lose feelings when we spend time together or that I will say I want to break up or something. Most of the time it feels like ROCD but sometimes it doesn't and its so scary. Then if it isn't that, I obsess over all the mistakes I have made so I feel guilty and like a secret abuser which makes the relationship hard to enjoy too! Does anyone else dread being around their partner because of all the damage ROCD has done or is doing?

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