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Just remember you are not alone in this! There are many who have felt or feel the same way (Like I was just having these exact thoughts). I struggle with the feelings of discomfort going with uncertainty and living my life, it makes me feel like I’m lying, constantly feeling like I know I’m gay and wasting my bf’s time, but I’m still going towards my values even through all the doubt and discomfort. We just have to keep pushing towards uncertainty, not figuring it out, and even accepting that they are there.
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Yeah seriously my biggest fears are totally hurting my husband or never getting to experience a fulfilling relationship with him! Thanks for your response, this is just so sucky
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@maybethistime Same, I think my core fear is living a lie and mainly leaving my boyfriend since we want to spend the rest of our lives together. Ocd attacks my relationship a lot too and my fears tend to always go back to me “having to leave him”
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@Corie Same here! I get bad cheating ocd about that too
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It’s just getting worse like I feel like I would be aroused by touching a woman’s breasts bc I get a response down there but it makes me so uncomfortable and sad
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Just have to sit with the discomfort, not reassure, check, or test! It’s all very uncomfortable and convincing but we can all persevere.
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@Corie You’re right, once the checking starts it just gets insane. I keep thinking up these weird scenarios and feeling like I’m aroused it’s a mess. Thank you for the encouragement
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Even when I get arousal from lesbians or girls it just makes me more sad than anxious, although that tends to come a bit later, like it’s the “inevitable truth I have to accept.” Some days I can accept that I was aroused and other days are harder. As long as we make progress in the right direction, it can get better.
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@Corie I just hate black and white thinking with OCD, I just feel like this can’t be true and I can’t also love my husband. I get sad too, like I’ll have to leave him and I’m in denial
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@maybethistime It is very black and white thinking, that’s why OCD is what it is
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I am currently panicking about this. I think (I’m not sure if it’s true or not) I thought 5-6 years ago I was aroused by my friend. But at the time I had no idea what being aroused meant or was like? And I don’t remember thinking anything of it. And today I have suddenly thought of it again and I’m panicking that I was turned on and I’m thinking it meant something that I also always knew but denied or something? But I don’t think I’ve ever been attracted to women or my best friend ... but now I feel like I can’t even be friends with her and I just want to die
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People can be aroused by all sorts of things, but it doesn’t mean they would actually want to do it themselves. Sexuality tends to be fluid so try not to overanalyze past arousal. I know it’s easier said than done. You are not alone <3
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Wow we are all experiencing the same exact thing guys
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I've always found women pretty and admired them since I was younger, never wanted to be with them or anything. I always pictured having a boyfriend and my crushes were always boys. I have a boyfriend now but because this has happened I feel nothing towards him or any men. To be honest I'm so exhausted I don't feel much at all, there was so much anxiety at the start and now there is none. Does that mean I have accepted the thoughts. My mind keeps going you were suppressed all these years but I do find women pretty so that's what's making it worse. Am I just in denial and being delusional? I never doubted my sexuality before this I always considered myself to be straight but I feels like my mind has been twisted and can't remember any attraction to guys but can remember thinking girls are pretty? Does this mean it's all real? I don't know anymore
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So I’ve talked to a couple of gay people and they all told me the same thing. They ALWAYS knew they liked guys and they have ever gotten aroused by a woman in their life. In fact they told me that they always found a woman’s body disgusting. Looking back in my life I’ve been attracted to girls for as long as I can remember even before puberty. All my fantasies were about girls and I can’t remember a time where I felt the same for a guy (because it never happened). At the end I can still get aroused by women and you can clearly see how much stupid this obsession about being gay is. Gay people can’t get instinctively aroused by a woman and like it. Groinal responses and sensations don’t mean anything because they simply do not bring joy or a feeling of desire. Instead they bring panic. I once got a groinal when “testing my reactions” and I was sitting there crying like my life is over. That’s not how genuine attraction works and no one has woken up one day feeling different and no one has been secretly gay and never noticed it and spent his whole life into women instead.
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I’m struggling badly. I did something about a month ago which I now realize was probably testing, but what scares me is I feel like I liked it, which is horrifying. What’s even worse though, is after I did it, I was able to brush it off quickly and not be too bothered by it, as I was still very anxious on other thoughts I was experiencing. Now those thoughts are meaningless and THIS is what’s causing tremendous anxiety, but the fact that I didn’t feel anxiety about it after I did it seals the deal for me. I mean, did feel anxious and guilty after I did it, but I was able to dismiss it somewhat quickly, and I remember that memory came up a couple of times within the month after I did it but like I said, it hasn’t too hard to dismiss it. I really feel like it’s denial. The fact that I wasn’t that anxious about it and tried to justify it/dismiss it HAS to mean it’s been denial all this time, there just no way this is OCD :( Right now I’m anxious about the fact that I might’ve liked it AND the fact that I wasn’t anxious about it for a while. It is really just a torment to ruminate on, and I would never do that thing again, but the fact that I did it and felt like I liked it is beyond terrifying. I feel like I have proof now, I’m trying to figure out why I did it and what it meant, and why I wasn’t super anxious the following weeks after, I mean it WAS uncomfortable to think back on, but I feel like the fact I wasn’t super anxious about it means I was in denial or repressing my true self. I am so so scared. I’ve been worried about this for the past week and a half :( (This is all centered on the same theme btw.)
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