- Date posted
- 4y
- Date posted
- 4y
Yes. He and I had a fight and almost broke up. I think that triggered it. It’s been 3 weeks and I’m slowly getting back to normal. It’s really more that I feel detached from everything and I’m trying to attach myself again. Have you figured out what it is that triggered that?
- Date posted
- 4y
Are you trying to work things out with him? Is he a mostly a good or bad guy
- Date posted
- 4y
@Ang1998 Well we were on & off for 3 years (mainly off, never official) he was the one messing up and he changed so much and he’s actually the best boyfriend ever, loyal, honest. We almost broke up because my mental health got bad and I broke his trust by snooping on his phone (and I found nothing new tbh). We’re good and working it out, it’s more I’m depressed/ocd/anxiety and recovering so sometimes I’ll feel super detached from him knowing that’s not my real feelings because I want to marry this man lol
- Date posted
- 4y
@Anonymous There’s days when I like looking at other men and then feel bad that my relationship is on the rocks and if I left him for someone else I’d feel prolly good at first but then feel hella guilty down the line because I know he’s a good guy. I’m just wicked stressed out and wanna escape his family torment and his insecurities but I know I had a duty to fulfill. I wanna be happy and escaping might make me feel happy …. At first, but will I in the end? That’s why I’ve been trying to find ways to stay even tho I’m sad and going through a mental health crisis, and I feel like I should go and move on, but if he loves me then why should I? Yes I deserve to be happy and my friends told me I deserve to be happy and not deal with his baggage but idk anymore. I’m on the fence and idk if it’s OCD anymore or not. I feel lost
- Date posted
- 4y
@Anonymous In also very depressed over thinking whether to decide what’s best or not. Currently in bed sad right now
- Date posted
- 4y
@Ang1998 Hmmmm… well that’s definitely different from what I explained. When I think of him being out of my life, I feel empty. I know it’d be my biggest regret. I just have huge insecurities and think I’m not good enough, so I’m working on myself. BUT it sounds like he may be dragging you down? Correct me if I’m wrong of course. Love isnt the only thing that should make you stay. It’s a huge part but there’s much more. Maybe instead of leaving for good, take some space/time apart for even a week or two and see how that feels without him? Sometimes we have to let things go to see how that makes us feel.
- Date posted
- 4y
@Anonymous He’s not dragging me down. His family tho is kinda toxic
- Date posted
- 4y
@Anonymous Like it’s not him personally really
- Date posted
- 4y
@Anonymous But my family is toxic too I just don’t talk to them
- Date posted
- 4y
@Anonymous He’s a good guy and started defending me a lot with his family and has been supporting me trying to get me through this. He has flaws that I hate but that’s just 10% of the 90% of drama that’s happening. His family is like the 80% of the problem. My family I barely talk to so they are the 10% I don’t give a fuck about what they say
- Date posted
- 4y
@Anonymous He doesn’t wanna lose me so he keeps trying to get his sister and me to get along when you can’t force someone with anger problems to get along with me. He wants us to work so badly and how he genuinely wants to be at my level because he views me as a valid role model for his life. He has told me he wants to reach my level and be the father of my children. He even talked about marrying me. I am not sure if I’m making the right decision if I choose to go with this. Because part of me wants to see what else is out there and the other part of me wants to stay because I care for him. My OCD or whatever it is is making me indecisive and that’s why I’m so depressed
Related posts
- Date posted
- 24w
I’m really anxious because I know my ocd is really bad right now so I shouldn’t try to figure it out cause my thinking is a mess but I’ve been having feelings of like I’m not sure if I love him anymore or worrying that I haven’t felt a lot like numb (a lot because ocd has been getting worse and worse) and thinking of like how I’ve been focusing on the negatives and only been looking at him through that lens and analyzing and also feeling like I don’t want this anymore. Basically just like negative thinking in feeling like I’m really scared it’s that it’s I don’t love him cause I don’t want it to be over and the thought of having someone replace him makes me ill. But like it feels like I’m not seeing him how I used to and it makes me upset. Today I was near someone I was like oh this person is cute and then I was thinking that the possibility of meeting someone new sounds exciting and now I’m freaking out because this in combination with feeling like maybe I don’t love him anymore is bad. Also my thoughts keep changing. and like sometimes it feels like I don’t care at all and this has happened but like worst it’s ever been and then other times I’m like I do care I do still feel. I’m just really anxious has anyone else felt this before and it was still ocd? 😭😭
- Date posted
- 23w
I know it’s long but plz read :( have been having really bad ocd about my relationship and my partner and it has gotten worse and worse over the span of like about nine months I’d say. I do acknowledge there are flaws and legit issues about him and the relationship like there are with anyone but I also know ocd has clouded my judgement and perception by analyzing everything and compulsions. For a while I kept feeling this need to get out which I know was ocd. I was really scared to spend the weekend with him because I thought I would just be annoyed and irritated cause it’s been that way for a while but he also was going through a period of high stress so maybe I was resenting him for that and I also wasn’t communicating how I should have been when I was upset because I’ve done that too much in the past. This weekend I was told in therapy to just be in the moment and not have to worry about trying to answer the question of do I love him or should I break up. It did help but It’s weird cause this weekend ended up better but I also was kind of numb? Like I was enjoying myself but didn’t feel what I always have felt in the past? Anyway, I am really anxious because i feel like if I loved him I would be supportive of when his parents compliment him or when he does well at something when instead all I think of are that I’m not happy or annoyed because of things he does that upset me or make me mad and it’s like that’s the only way my brain wants to see him as a person. Or when he is upset it feels like I don’t care like I used to because I think of how he doesn’t deserve this when he does this or he shouldn’t have this when he is like this etc. Why does my brain automatically go there? That’s horrible! I feel like I should be excited for him, rooting for him. But it also feels like I do care for him? But my thoughts keep changing. I am afraid I only am with him because I love that he loves me and how he treats me. This makes me feel selfish cause I can’t do that. I notice I still like when he cuddles me and is sweet to me and does fun things watching movies etc. And that’s not how it used to feeel which scares me because I don’t want to be without him. I also love his parents am I only with him cause of how his parents treat me? I feel so selfish and like I have to tell him and break up with him cause it’s the right thing to do. I never used to feel like this. I’m scared. Is it possible I’m just I’ve been mad and resenting how it’s been cause he’s been stressed mix with my ocd? My therapist said relationships can go through phases. Can I fall back in love with him again? I feel like I have to try to start with someone else like this is too far gone. I don’t want to stay in something where I don’t feel toward him the way I want to but I really don’t want to leave him. I feel like such an awful person cause he doesn’t deserve this and is so caring and loving despite everything the major thing that bugs me is how he gets irritable a lot which is an imperfection that makes me get anxious and question him😭 trying not to read into this and just follow what the therapist said but this is scaring me because I feel like if I loved him I wouldn’t think like this or feel like this.
- Date posted
- 22w
I have had ocd in my relationship for a while now. When I originally met him it was like this insane spiritual soulmate feeling and we just clicked instantly and he never judged me. I’m scared cause when I picture breaking up with my boyfriend I see myself being ok and being sad but moving on which I never was able to see before doesn’t this mean that this is what would happen or I don’t know till it happens? I still can’t imagine what life would be like without him but I just feel like I have lost feelings that I never wanted to lose. plus that’s also when I just picture knowing how people move on and how I’d just have to move on without letting myself picture processing the losses of all. I’m just really scared cause I used to think of wanting other things in someone else and what it would be like but I just thought how nice it would be to have it and not actually meaning it bc every time I thought about it I got upset and now it feels diff. He knows I have ocd but I never explained the ROCD because I thought it would have offended him so every time I went through a flare up I never told and acted like I was fine and it kept happening and OCD kept getting worse and worse. Maybe that’s part of the issue cause I haven’t been feeling like myself. But this is a feeling I never wanted to feel ever with him. I have gone through the feeling of numb but not like this. And he has a lot of positives but I can only see him overall as negatives and I’ve been told that’s ocd but it’s affecting how I feel. And yes there are legit actual things in the relationship that upset me but ocd has been affecting the way I look at him also. I keep being told my judgment is being impaired but this time it rly feels like not. And I’m Scared why don’t memories and things affect me like it used to doesn’t that mean I want this. Has anyone experienced this or is this the end 😭
Be a part of the largest OCD Community
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond