- Date posted
- 42w
Relationship problems (Fear of sexual rejection)
Me (19) my gf (20) have been dating for 1.5 years. R-OCD hadn’t really attach to me until I suspected that she was cheating. We’ve discussed and resolved those concerns. However, today I was looking through her phone (out of paranoia) and I went back to her messages (on snapchat) before we started dating (big mistake and I knew it in the moment idk what drove me to keep going), and I saw her texts with other guys she was talking to before me. It hurts so much to see that and I can’t stop replaying everything I saw in my mind. I know I shouldn’t hold it against our relationship obviously because it was before us, but right now I can’t separate it even though I need to in order to keep the relationship alive. I have had this fear of her liking guys more than me, especially sexually, which has constantly triggered my fear of rejection and has constantly made me paranoid and on edge. It’s so hard cause I know this fear is irrational because no one is gonna be attracted to one person, especially sexually. It’s embarrassing to get into this but thinking about d-size really triggers me and my fear of rejection and r-ocd. I fear that that would somehow be the only thing that matters to her and that if she had expirence/ talked to someone with one she wouldn’t view me in the same light. This is especially triggering cause this is our first real relationship for the both of us. And she has always created this ideal notion of how amazing it is that our first relationship is gonna last forever and how we took each other virginity’s yada yada. This has made me paranoid and scared of her reactions to other men sexually, I think it’s because I fear that she doesn’t really know what’s truly out there cause she has no experience. I fear that if she actually see another man in a sexual context she may disregard me cause she hasn’t really been exposed to that before. So this whole time I’ve been scared of her finding other men sexually attractive, and going back to what happened today (me going through the snapchat messages with other guys before our relationship) im now triggered more than ever. And of course my ocd brain is obsessing about a sign that she may have been talking to someone with a big d and/or expressing how she wants one (embarrassing to even say this trigger). So now I’m triggered that she’ll never believe that I’m sexually enough, and that they’ll always be guys she would die to be with sexually more than me. While I try to make everything in the relationship perfect, something about the hollowness of her potentially rejecting me just based off of another man’s sexual appeal or d size is why I’m so obsessed with this sexual envy/fear. I’m scared I’m gonna self sabotage the relationship with my fears and I don’t know if I can handle what I was exposed to today. Seeing her talk sexually about other men with her friends before we were dating is so hard. The worst part about this is I have no reason to associate her past relationships with ours, it’s not fair to her. So now I’m in this state where I can’t look at my gf and our relationship the same even though she did nothing wrong. Basically I feel like I’m gonna end up running the relationship even though I dont want to and know I shouldn’t be thinking about the past. I’ve talked to my girlfriend about my discovery of her messges (minus the more embarrassing parts of my thinking) and she’s gave me the reassurance that they didn’t mean anything that’s why they never turned into anything blah blah blah. And I believe her but that doesn’t stop my ocd and this fear of sexual rejection. I know that having a girl never fantasize about other men sexually is impossible and stupid and I’m so angry that it triggers me. Our sexual life is actually pretty good and i don’t have any problems down there which just adds to my frustration and confusion about everything. Does anyone have R-ocd thoughts somewhat like this haven’t seen anything really similar?