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I understand what you're going through to some extent. ROCD is such an angry part of OCD and it has been (for me) one of the more aggressive sides of the disorder. I know this might sound insane but the best thing to do is ask yourself this. "Is this person worth my time if they left me for their ex?" Because here's the thing if they leave you for an ex they are not worth your time. I know that sounds like it's easier said than done. But that's one of the only ways I have gotten through it myself. I use to look my boyfriends letters to Exes (he kept them in a box) and I used to so angry at him. As of rn, we don't talk. I don't text him anymore. I only talk to him when he comes home from work. it's such a hard part of the disorder. But you have to just remind yourself. "There are better people out there" and if you and your partner don't work out just know, they just weren't worth your time. Idk if this helps. But I hope so.
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Thank you so so much, it does help 💕 I will keep this in mind for sure
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Is there some reasoning for the roommate not knowing? Like would she/he be spiteful or something?
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My partner is afraid of hurting the roommates feelings and is very very nervous with confrontation and has issues with feeling immense guilt, the roommate would get upset but doesn’t seem to be too spiteful or anything. But did freak out upon seeing us hold hands once. My partner doesn’t want to burn any bridges (a fear of theirs even if I don’t think it would), which honestly makes me upset but I can respect their choice of ‘waiting for the right time to tell the roommate’ which may never come
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@602pm Well do you guys have plans of moving in together? Listen your concerns are valid, having to hide your relationship for two years sounds tremendously hard. I'm not saying that's reason to not be with them or not that's a maybe maybe not type thing, but I think you're valid in your hurt and sometimes it's okay to accept that circumstances are not ideal.
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@whatadooo We are looking for a place to move out together soon, which is what I’ve been trying to hold out on.. It was supposed to happen sooner but Covid really messed things up, perfect storm type situation Thank you for this💕 it’s hard to differentiate between ROCD and validity sometimes and I imagine they’re interchangeable/hold hands as well making it much harder 😔
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Maybe they are cheating on me. Maybe this two years has been a joke and things have been happening behind my back. Maybe I will never make them as happy as the roommate. Maybe I’m here to be a binkie and a financial help only and I’m being messed around with until shit gets figured out for them both. Aaauuuugh.
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Hi everyone! I have been having a rough time. So my boyfriend talks to his ex still as friends and I’ve been struggling with it lately and I can’t tell if it’s OCD or not but it does feel so distressing. She wasn’t texting him for about 2-3 months as she got into a relationship with this guy and they broke up. She had messaged him saying that she has no one else to talk to and needed to vent to someone. At first I felt okay, but my intrusive thoughts took over and it seemed like she was trying to get with him after the fact. It’s probably just my intrusive thoughts talking but he looks on Discord (the app where the message) constantly now and my intrusive thoughts convince me that he’s still in love with her. Then yesterday I saw one of his BeReals (a little photo app that shows a photo of the day) and I saw that he was watching one of her streams as she is a streamer. I struggled to talk about it because it made my worst thought feel like it came true where he is still in love with her. When we talked he gets a lil mad that I don’t tell him right away like straight up what I’m feeling but it’s hard to process because my thoughts flood in of all the worst things and I don’t want to come off as toxic at all and I know relationships are built on trust and I want to trust because this is literally the only thing that makes me nervous about him. It also doesn’t help that I’ve been cheated on before so I’m trying to protect myself but I’m lost. I get so depressed and so anxious because I feel like I have to grieve the relationship and it’s just so dramatic. I’ve never loved anyone like this before and I don’t wanna lose him by bringing this stuff up constantly when something occurs with his ex. I don’t know why I get triggered so easily and I just wanna heal from it and be the good girlfriend I’m supposed to be 😭
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I don’t know where to begin, this is going to be very long. But whoever responds I appreciate you dearly. I’m 20 years old, I’ve dealt with a lot in my childhood with abandonment and insecurity issues from my family. Aswell of not having a role model of a healthy relationship shown to me as a child. Me and my boyfriend have been together for 3 years, my first healthy relationship. Last year I discovered OCD (I am diagnosed but I ignored my mental health as a teenager like anybody would) I started to get these feelings that I don’t love my partner/he’s not attractive enough/ etc etc. I’ve discovered that it’s ROCD. I made threads on Reddit asking for advice googling for reassurance, all the things as one would do with ocd (as I’m doing now!) One day I woke up and that theme was gone, I felt normal in my relationship for about 4 months with no terrible thoughts. As of about 2-3 months ago, my theme switched. Now I have a fear he doesn’t love me, he’s cheating, he doesn’t want to marry me. It has utterly consumed me (just like my last theme!) I check his phone an unhealthy amount (guess what I never find anything!) He always lets me go through his phone, but as anyone would he gets annoyed and frustrated. I always am searching for signs if he’s acting weird, will get into arguments 24/7 because my brain keeps telling me he’s cheating, I get fake scenarios in my brain, hell I even bought Snapchat+ to stalk his snap score. But ever single time I find nothing. A lot of things trigger me and I over analyze everything, phone calls who his texting. When I do search his phone I check his EMAIL because of how paranoid I am. When I see things on social media about people cheating I SPIRALLLL But what really triggered me was this scenario, his family loves to joke around with me and mess with him at the same time, especially with our relationship, saying I have a leash on him etc etc making jokes (which I can take but when I’m in an ocd spiral and they have no idea something’s are triggering) anyways, we were out to lunch and his mother texts him “are u at some girls house” he told me straight away then responded “why would u say that” then she proceeded to say she’s messing around with him. And sent a picture of me and said I’m with Hailey at lunch, then they had a normal conversation after. Obviously this sent me into a spiral, it still bothers me. I was so upset and anxious, when we got back to his house I went through that man’s phone like it was my only job in the world. And I search EVERYTHING not one thing goes untouched. (I sound insane) anyways we went back to his place, then he called his mom to come in his room and asked why she said that, she felt guilty and said she was messing around she had her hands in her head (mind you she’s been drinking probably just messing around with him when she texted that) she told me not to worry ever about that kind of stuff because her son is not that type of man, she proceeded to leave the room then texted me about how sorry she was and didn’t mean to freak me out and felt like shit about it. Ever since then she’s been acting kind of weird towards me (not really) maybe she’s uncomfortable or there’s another women idk LOL. Anyways yea what the hell do I do I literally can’t function properly.
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