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- 40w
Marry or leave? both options scare me so much
I really dont know what to do. I am engaged and time is runnin thin, my fiance- though very supportive and patient- wont wait forever. He said yesterday he'd like to have a yes or now by mid 2025. People tell me (even my therapist, who is specialised in OCD but doesn't seem to have treated ROCD especially) what i have is "NOT JUST rocd". Nonody denies my ROCD but they think its not just that. I tend to hope its just ROCD and that this is the reason why I can't fully commit and make the decision to marry and start planning it, but I am not sure cause of course you can have ROCD but ALSO like doubts based on real issues which are not obsessive thoughts? Cause I am so scared, so scared of the chance a marriage brings with it. I have trouble with big changes. I don't live with my fiance yet ( we are believing Christians so this is not an option for us ) which means marriage will be felt an even bigger Step and change. I also live in a big community (flatshare with people of different ages and backgrounds) in a small City and I LOVE it. My fiance doesn't, so we would live alone. He wants to buy a house, which means we would live more remote. Sometimes I am thinking ' when I am so scared of leaving this community, doesn't this mean I love the people I live with more than him?' Or is it just that I always loved fellowship and am always scared of big changes? I definitively have ROCD but as you see, but also a lot of Real issues. He also wants children soon He says he's ok with waiting for me to feel ready to get pregnant cause this is another thing: I want children but I do not feel ready for it and it scares me even more than marriage. He is a wonderful man, actually I am sure I'd never find one like him. My therapist thinks I'd have the OCD with another man as well but also he thinks I am scared of closeness. When I told him " well can't I work on this", he answered "no, that's just part of you" as I'd never had a Trauma where I'd been left by a Partner (this is my first relationship). This made me cry. I always leave after therapy very doen and puzzled. I don't know what to do I feel so lost. However I will decide, my decision will be based on my anxiety and OCD. Both future options scare me and make me feel hopeless...the thought of loosing him of us being seperated is terrible, but maybe this is just because I do not want to be alone and doesn't mean I love him :(