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Do you mind if I ask how old you are? I didn't have my first relationship till I was 29, we have been together 10 years now, married 5 and my husband knows all about my OCD. Maybe you just haven't met the right person yet. Have you tried online dating that's what I did, I dated guy after guy for over a year until I met my husband.
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Thanks for your response. Im 19 and I’ve tried online dating, but it just doesn’t work for me. I lost my virginity to a guy i met on tinder but I wasn’t super into him. Im just stressed out that the universe is telling me I’m gay.
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If it stresses you out that much then it is most probably the OCD, it plays on your fears/worries and will not stop until you analyise them and come up with an answer to which you never will for certain. My therapist taught me that you need to think maybe I am maybe I'm not does it matter at this presise moment. Try talking to the OCD say what if I am gay what's it matter to you, maybe I am maybe I'm not, do I have to decide and tell the world, the answer is no. Don't give the OCD the satisfaction of arguing with it because then it wins. I still struggle some days with mine, I know I am not gay but can't know for certain that one day I may and that uncertainty is what the OCD plays on, I have to say to my OCD maybe I will like women one day maybe I won't at the moment I am in a relationship with a man I love and hope to be forever. Thoughts are just that thoughts, you decide on what you do.
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So i started to feel like a lesbian again and that i have to be one. I dont want to be one. I just dont. But being straight feel like a lie now. I question my whole life, my feelings and everything. The biggest indicator of this must be that i will be slowly 21 year old and ive never dated anyone and i dont really find anyone attractive and i dont even know if i truly was attracted to someone and im scared of relationships i might have trauma or have anxious avoidant attachment. Help me. I do feel lost. Really lost. I dont know who am I anymore. I feel like that i must have been gay my whole life now. I feel like an alien. I sometimes feel like 2 people are living inside of me.😞😞😞
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I am a 18 year old masc lesbian with a loving girlfriend for 1 year, and I have been lesbian for almost my whole life and I have never been attracted to men in any way. flash to my past, My ex girlfriend who used to identify as a lesbian had cheated on me with a man. Recently I saw this tiktok of this masc lesbian turn straight and my friends and girlfriend made jokes I am going to turn straight for my male best friend. My male best friend came over and he’s a great guy but I do not want him in any way. when him and i were hanging out my mind threw in a thought it was “What if i like him”, i came back home and i had the worst panic attack and i felt so sick, i cried and i cried. ever since that day I have been struggling with intrusive thoughts, i don’t want a man in any way, and i feel comfortable as a lesbian but these thoughts won’t stop and they become worse when i see people say being lesbian is a phase or that i haven’t met the right guy or i’ll change in the future. i just want these thoughts to stop, i don’t want to stop being a lesbian ever, i love women so much and i just want all of this to be over with. i do not want a man in any way and im tired of my thoughts doubting myself and i hate the “what ifs”, I just want to be my old self, I want to be happy with my girlfriend.
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