Does anyone have any advice for sharing their obsessions with their significant other? I struggle with relationship and sexuality OCD. My boyfriend knows I have OCD, but we have never discussed it in detail. I think he is trying to respect my boundaries and I am terrified he won’t understand my obsessions and/or will take them personally. As a result I feel like I am hiding this horrible secret, and it is causing me so much anxiety. I want to talk to him about it, but I don’t know how to bring it up in a way that won’t hurt him.

I haven’t been in this position yet but always thought about how I’d do it if I did. I always thought I’d ask them to research into pure o ocd and it’s themes and for them to try and explain to me their understandings of it, maybe then have a sit down conversation about ocd in general, to make sure they fully understood it all, and understand that the themes aren’t the issue, and then once he understood that I would then tell him about my theme? :)

It really depends on the relationship you have with your boyfriend. I started having hocd within one year of the relationship. I like to think I have a really strong bond with him, and we have a very open and honest relationship. So i told him. It was a really difficult conversation at the time but he understands I have immense anxiety. I can tell you my hocd/rocd got a lot worse, and yet he is still in the picture.

And we arw abour to hit 2 years of being together

maybe be alone together and talk about it?