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I don’t blame you. I get triggered all the time with my partner. He would say something and I would take it the wrong way and then I will think about it sooo much to try to figure things out and then it causes me to have trust issues. My advice to you is try not to think about it to much. Worry about how he makes you feel in the moment and if he makes you happy then that’s all that matters. Stay in the present with him and try not to overthink things too much from the past or what he says
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I’m the same way in my rel too with a lot of things and I’m trying so hard not to ruminate but it’s so hard. I finished my ocd therapy but it’s expansive for me to go back but I feel like I need some type of ERP for this And I don’t want to do it wrong. I know things slip accidentally but a random incorrect color doesn’t just slip if he’s thinking of someone with completely different colored eyes. Idk I’m just feeling so upset
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Oh my God this is my life every day. We are married, living in the same house really loving each other and yet I DOUBT all the time. I analyse everything he says making a total fool of myself. I feel so embarrassed for behaving like that as if i am a worthless person with zero self confidence. Ocd's job is to make you doubt every little aspect of your life just to make you miserable and lonely. I have spent a hundred hours crying after anxiety episodes because of ocd and have made my husband sad watching me totally collapsed. Ocd is an everyday fight. We try to analyse everything just to believe we have n of our lives and we'll never get hurt. Wrong!!! No one and most of all ocd can make us feel sure and secure.Danger is always out there and we cannot make anyone be good, honest and faithful. It's their job as long as they love and respect us. It's just so exhausting trying to make sure all the time that others are perfect and nice to you.
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@zoed I am the same exact way! Ocd has always targeted my relationship so severely it’s awful. I don’t wish this on anyone and everyone else just seems to function so well in their rel without ocd. I had NOCD therapy and it helped wonders and I was in remission for 7 months and then had a small spike so went back for a follow up which was nice but now it’s bubbling up again and it’s hard for me to afford NOCD :( it’s just so hard to deal with on ur own yakno?
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Yeah I completely get you. All those things would be going on my head too. Just trust him until he gives you a reason not too
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Thanks to everyone who helped me feel less alone in this. Some days are so painful and other days just feel normal. I hate when ocd come back up so severely. :(
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I really dont think its a big deal but thats my opinion. Just like to you or some others it may be. At the end of the day though you know what you havw to do. It’s your relationship
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You lay out how you feel and the knowledge you have versus others!
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@Coul.C This is very true
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I have this alot paranoid doubting trust issues have u been tested for personality disorder not saying u have but ocd and personality disorder are closly linked but if ur hair is brown and he got them mixed up I wouldn't worry to much hun he could of been thinking of a way to compliment you and just said it wrong x
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I wasn’t diagnosed with personality disorder during my intakes But I have a lot of insecurities all my life from being bullied badly growing up ages 10-20. So I feel like really triggered easily about these things lkke oh he’s thinking of someone else. I feel like his girl type is brown eyes brown hair and I have brown hair green eyes so my thought goes to he’s thinking of me with brown eyes or someone else clearly. And who and why. I keep thinking in my head over and over again
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@Ocd_andme I'm exactly the same hun x
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Update: the brown hair mix up was apparently just a brainstorm idea like “maybe bc I was thinking of ur hair?” But he said I truly don’t know where brown came from tbh I wasn’t really thinking of eye color but I wasn’t thinking of someone else I was thinking of you . How do U think of eyes but not eye color ? If it wasn’t about hair initially then idk what to think. No one says a random color accidentally and the color is just random? I feel so depressed
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I understand your worries as I suffer from ocd. You know better who your partner is and try to listen to your heart and feelings than to your thoughts and mind. People often make mistakes while speaking and men are usually more distracted than we are. You know his character, you know this person a long time do you feel deep down that there's something wrong with him? Have you noticed something alarming in his usual behaviour? If not try to take it as easy as you can and do not focus on your thoughts. Thoughts are wrong many times but our heart knows the truth! We are here with you as I have the same issues with you!
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@zoed Thanks for all your feedback💜💙 and honestly I know in my heart and who he is as a person I can trust him so i shouldn’t have my insecurities ruin more of this. I’m trying to push past this
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@Ocd_andme I am happy you are trying to get over this difficult issue. Today it was a hard day for me as I gave many fights inside my head in ordee not to give in Ocd's challenges. It started from early morning and lasted until some hours ago. If someone has not gone through this they certainly cannot understand our fight and terrifying worries. We as ocd people understand each other's pain and can help just be saying "I can understand you and you are not alone"! Keep trying, we try with baby steps every single day 🙂🙂🙂
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@zoed I feel the same way, every time I talk to someone else who has ocd, I feel so much more relieved because they understand me more. I get you. I go through challenges like that all the time in my head and I try to not give in my ocd. It definitely is difficult at times but we just have to keep pushing through
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- 25w
I’m at a loss about what to do. I’ve been with my partner for about a year. I’ve wanted to be with him for 3 years and now I finally have him, I got out of a really toxic 11 year relationship about 4 years ago so I’ve had plenty of time to heal, things where going so great at first in our relationship and I’m still very much happy with him, I love him more than anything, but the past 5 6 months I’ve been having a constant fear that he’s gonna cheat or watch 🌽behind my back any chance he gets , I know that’s a touchy subject for some, but me personally it just makes me feel that I’m not attractive enough,or feel like I’m not good enough, I’ve never found evidence of cheating, and I’ve found 🌽 in his history once but I told him how I felt and he told me he understood how I felt and wouldn’t do it again,and I know the constant asking everyday and needing for reassurance with it is putting a tear in our relationship, I just want to fix it. Does anyone have any advice on how to redirect my brain whenever I start overthinking about it when I’m not around him? It just puts so much stress on me when I’m not around him cause I’m just constantly in my head about it.
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Recently my bf wanted to confess to a comment he made to his friends that always bothered him that he said this and it was literally within the first week we had met. (It’s sweet that he wanted to apologize for it, he even teared up bc he knew it would hurt my feelings) He told his friends that I was “super pretty but that he also thinks these girls on tiktok are hot” (girls with piercings and dark makeup, basically alt/ goth looking). Then he said “I just think that look is attractive.” He said the only reason he brought it up was bc he was on tiktok when he was talking to his friends (on discord) and a girl popped up on his FYP and made him think what he finds more attractive. Then his friends wanted to see pictures of me and everyone agreed I was pretty. Then like 3 days later he was talking to his friends again (they only ever talk through discord bc they don’t live in the same city) and was basically just raving about me and how pretty I am. Then his friends said “what about the tiktok girls and what you said” and then my bf said “I was trippin”. This is making my ocd so bad bc I kept ruminating if I should add it to the list of reasons why we need to break up or if this was my “sign” to end it. But then I also get reminded of the positive, like when he told me the first time he saw me he thought I was the prettiest girl he’d ever seen, and has even reassured me by showing me messages of him talking to his best friend about me (also the same week of us first talking) and told him that I was “actually perfect” and “INSANELY pretty”. I try not to be upset at him since this was when we barely knew each other and his type back then was more emo/alt girls at the time and I look different. But I have spiraled so much about it bc I don’t want him to settle for me. He’s tried reassuring me so many times that he was always very attracted to me and never thought anyone was prettier than me, he said just in that brief moment that look still caught his eye but that it went away super fast. He also tried explaining to me that “hot” doesn’t mean “better” or even “prettier” just that the look itself is what he used to describe as hot. He said “hot” is also a casual thing to say, especially to guy friends. Whereas to me, hot means the BEST looking. Sometimes I want him to admit that he was just not that attracted to me in the beginning/more attracted to tiktok girls in the beginning bc it makes more sense to me LOL but that’s just me being annoying and I get very bothered when someone tries to sugar coat things rather than telling me the harsh truth. I think this may be another common thing in ocd, like just WANTING him to tell me the worst case scenario bc it’s more logical to me that way. He ends up crying with me bc of how sad he feels that I have such low self esteem from it and also is so frustrated that I won’t believe him, even though he was honest enough to want to share this with me. Sometimes I think he is playing two truths and a lie to make his explanations more believable. Am I making him out to be a villain who always wants to manipulate me or is this just an instinct I have when I feel that someone is not telling me the truth. We’ve had other problems with him not wanting to be brutally honest bc of how I react so it always scares me that he is always telling me a fabricated story. I also am starting to feel embarrassed for myself and for him being with me. I wish someone could just tell me if the things he’s done or said are deal beakers
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My bf swears he doesn’t notice other women, and that even before dating me, he was never the kind of person to look at women. I, however, have difficulty trusting him. OCD makes this a thousand times worse. Now I don’t ever notice him staring at other women or anything, but I see him look around sometimes especially when someone passes by or someone new shows up while we’re in a restaurant or something. He insists this is him noticing movement and also checking surroundings for safety reasons, but how can I be sure he’s not secretly catching a glance bc his “controlling” gf won’t let him. He insists, swears on his life, that he has no eyes for other women, but if I’m being honest guys, I don’t trust him. No matter how often he proves himself, I don’t trust him. I am often checking his eyes in public. It was worse back then, we have worked through this and I’m doing better now, but I always regress to old habits and old fears. I feel this will be the rest of my life, where I will never be able to fully trust a man. That OCD will always hold me back.
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