- Date posted
- 34w
Is this ROCD?
hi i just found this app but I’ve been wondering for some time if I have ROCD and I wanted some opinions on what other people thought so sorry it’s so long it’s my first time getting it off my chest haha i’ve been in 3 relationships including one i’m currently in. to give a run down- my first relationship was peaceful except i constantly wondered and worried about if we were a good fit, making bigger problems of small things, always psychoanalyzing what was wrong with my partner even though he was a really good boyfriend and we were happy. that one ended because of distance and then i entered my second relationship soon after. i felt so sure about this guy but he had a very severe case of retroactive jealousy, constantly asking inappropriate and intimate questions about me and my ex and getting angry when i couldn’t give him the reassurance he wanted. he was very manipulative and microcheated on me multiple times and that’s the reason why we essentially broke up. during that relationship i was constantly battling with myself with feelings of anxiety and mistrust. now i’m with my current boyfriend and we’re a work in process but he’s a good guy and i’m now realizing that i need to work on myself but im not sure if it’s partly due to rocd. we met on an app and we were talking to each other for about three months without being exclusive because i was scared that putting a label on it would make me get attached and get hurt by him because of my 2nd ex. i explained myself for why the no label but i did tell him that i didn’t want him having sex with other people if he was serious about pursuing us as a relationship because i find sex to be important and he’s had 20 bodies in the past because he only had one other relationship and after that he’s been casually dating for a couple years. he agreed but he ended up sleeping with someone. i took him back because i was the one that made it not exclusive when he asked for one. after that we made it exclusive but a month in we had a problem and being the avoidant that he is, he ran away and ended things with me. he ended up sleeping with the same girl he slept with a month before and it really hurt me. even though i did say it was not exclusive, i haven’t been seeing anyone else but him during the three months and i treated him like a boyfriend which is partly my fault. after much consideration and talking things through, i took him back and ever since he has done nothing wrong to make me question his loyalty or his intentions with me (other than the fact that he watches porn but we see each other once a week. i did tell him i don’t like that because he finds other ppl pretty and fuckable but he doesn’t get it. he said when we do have sex regularly he’ll stop watching it because he agrees at that point porn is unnecessary) we are definitely more of a slow burn relationship, it’s more steady and calm. but i can’t help but feel so turbulent inside. i’m constantly checking his social media (i have a really bad problem of stalking my ex’s social media. it used to be 10+ times a day but now ive gotten better with my ex), when he’s out with his friends he is not really on his phone and i’d stay up until 3am checking his location (he’s normally not a text person but he’s also working on that because i did tell him id like some updates), im constantly thinking that he’s going to get sick of me and that he’ll find other women pretty or that he’ll be happy with someone else. i try not to share all this with him because i feel crazy sometimes with these intrusive thoughts that i can’t get rid of but it does seep out even when im being so cautious. i feel like my 2nd ex had an influence on me, making me normalize the obsessive thinking that was happening every day while we were together and id just really like to have a peace of mind so i can enjoy this relationship for what it is. sorry this was so long but is this just the byproduct of my shitty ex or is this some sort of ocd i’m experiencing? any tips on how to snap out of times when the intrusive thoughts come crashing in? thank u for hearing me out