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Every day, it’s what it does to you. Makes you doubt things you know are true deep down. I do get it though sometimes you’d give anything to take this pain away but if you’re happy in your relationship and it’s not toxic etc then leaving will probably only make this feeling follow you around, it latches onto what you care about
Yeah I suppose that makes sense. I just don’t know if I am happy. I’ve never really been in a relationship before this one, so it’s hard to tell. I just can’t see how I’m going to feel better if I don’t get out, you know?
@🌹 I experienced the same doubts you did, I felt miserable for months until I realised it was more about myself than my partner and that it wasn’t his job to make me happy and that happiness isn’t something that is permanently there it fluctuates and that’s really normal. My break up urges got so bad we ended up splitting up and my bad thoughts left but the sadness and realisation that it wasn’t him hit me very quickly, so we got back together. Have you spoken to your partner about it?
@sophiewren I’m glad you’ve managed to make some progress!! I haven’t spoken to him about it. It’s very new to me, and I’ve not been able to speak to a therapist yet, so I wanted to make sure I had a handle on it before I worry him. I’m just not sure if he can help much, and therefore if it’s worth telling him?
@sophiewren Oh my god. That's very true. I feel like I just cannot live on my own and make myself happy so I rely and demand too much from him. It's even unfair to do... High expectations ruin things
@Daria Alexandrovna It is so common because when we are actually single for a period of time we rely on ourselves for our own happiness and then as soon as we get into a relationship we suddenly depend on someone else? I put so much pressure on him in a global pandemic to lift my moods especially! When his life was exactly the same and it was an unfair expectation
It’s quite scary when it happens the first time, it really knocked me back and I felt paralysed. A dangerous trap I got into was relying so much on him to reassure me that we were okay and that they were just thoughts and I always had such an intrusive urge to explain everything that was going on in my head but that just feeds the cycle. I’m having my first ERP session tomorrow I’ll keep you posted on how it goes! There’s also some good Facebook groups you could join if you search ROCD you should be able to find them and work out what’s best to help you
Yeah it’s such a shock; it was all so overnight. I know I would rely on him too much as well, but I’m also conscious that I’m keeping quite a big thing from him. Good luck with your ERP, I’d love to hear how it goes :)
Hi there! Glad to hear that I am not alone. My Compulsions are about basically spelling out alllll of the things he does wrong and that he is not my soulmate because I don’t “feel” it. I’m so lost at this point but I’m waiting to see if treatment helps before making any harsh decision and also because I Iove him and I love to our lives :(
I am kinda feeling like I’m in the opposite boat. Like I really should leave my relationship but I can’t for some unknown reason. We both are in a weird situation where he keeps goading me to break up with him, like he wants to end the relationship but can’t bring himseld to actually break up with me so he wants me to do it for him. He has actually accused me of “hoarding him” because he knows I have a hoarding disorder (plus it’s kind of obvious even though it’s way more under control than it used to be). I was so offended when he said that but maybe it’s true?
I’ve been ruminating non-stop over the last several months about whether I’m in the right relationship, so much so that I find myself evaluating every moment that I spend with my partner and how it “could” have been better. It’s challenging because the relationship does have a bunch of issues that need to be worked through, and my partner tends to be avoidant person (probably because she grew up in an overprotective environment combined with no previous experience with relationships). Having to coach her every step of the way feels overwhelming when I myself am struggling to bear the weight of my anxious/depressive thoughts. Our relationship started right about when COVID was picking up, which makes me wonder whether the relationship is the root cause of my anxiety, or if my anxiety is making me view my otherwise okay relationship negatively. Some days I feel like breaking up would make me feel much better, other days I feel like this may be as good as it gets. Doesn’t every relationship comes with its issues? What if I’m not going to be any happier off seeing someone else either? I also have a deep-rooted fear that if I give up on this relationship I will be left alone, unlovable, and miserable for the rest of my life. I tend to be super critical of myself for most things (and that has served me well on the career front) but I can’t help but wonder if I’m inadvertently being picky about my partner’s qualities. At this point, the conflict in my head is raging so hard that I don’t care about the outcome of my relationship – I just want to feel at peace with myself and secure in the decision I arrive at.
Why does it keep feeling better/right for me to leave my wonderful relationship? It feels more wrong and it hurts more at the thought of staying. I keep hearing in my brain I’m just with him bc I don’t want to be alone, but these thoughts and feelings are driving me crazy. I want to cocoon and be alone but of course I want to stay in this relationship. It’s like my brain doesn’t want to be convinced that I love him or want to stay with him. It’s like it only wants us to be alone so we’re no longer stressed about this stuff. I hate that’s how exhausted I am with all this shit😞any tips/help?
So I’m in a relationship with an amazing guy, like he’s literally so great, and yet there have been a lot of moments of doubt and worry over many different things, some of them I know are small and insignificant, and yet they feel so big. But right now, I’ve been experiencing thoughts and feelings that don’t necessarily worry me, but I still try to understand them and analyze them to no end. For example, I’ve realized that I become a little irritated and weirded out by my bf’s overly hyper and cringy behaviour around his friends. I sometimes think he’s just a little socially awkward and he doesn’t realize it. I can’t quite explain it or put my finger on it, but it’s irritating, and a lot of it has to do with his voice. I don’t want to be irritated by this stuff tho, I don’t want to feel irritated by his voice or his hyper and cringy behaviour, but it can be a bit much sometimes, and I worry that it’s bad for me to feel that way. I just wish I could make that feeling go away. But even with this, I’m not feeling worried as much because I know I really like him and I want to make this relationship work, and yet I still feel the need to analyze his behaviours, trying to make sense of why he acts and sounds the way he does when he’s with friends, trying to understand how I feel about it, and how I would feel if it was done/said differently or by a different person. It’s all just a mess, it’s so confusing, and it’s even more confusing when I’m not feeling anxious or worried, but I’m still finding these quirks bothersome. I really just want this to work out, you have no idea how badly. It’s all just so confusing and I don’t want to let those flaws become dealbreakers. I’ve always been worried, even since the very beginning, that his minor flaws would become dealbreakers, it was like I was fighting a part of myself that felt it should be a dealbreaker, but I don’t want it to be. I just want to stop feeling this way about every little inconvenience, annoyance, or flaw. I feel like I’m constantly fighting myself.
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