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- RelationshipObsessed
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I went through this too, but what really helped is realizing I have a past too and my girlfriend as far as I know didn’t seem to care or get jealous about that. I also kept myself busy by in my alone time focusing on bettering myself so there’s nothing I should feel jealous about
i feel you! i’ve been in this position
I feel you… I used to do this a lot before I deleted all my social media. It’s a sickening feeling for sure. I always just remind myself that there is a reason my partner and I are together now, and the love we have can’t be overshadowed by anything from the past. My jealousy is all rooted in my not feeling like I am enough for him, which is rooted in my fear of abandonment. OCD loves this and uses it to its advantage. One thing I think about is would I have really wanted my fiancé to not have been with literally anyone else and be 27 years old (his age when we met)? No, of course not. Because my fiancé is interesting and has lived a life, he has a dating history. As I do as well. I am planning to do an exposure soon where I read a story about a man cheating on his current partner with an ex, and imagine it as my fiancé and his ex. It sounds like torture even just writing this now, but that type of exposure is really the best way to reduce the anxiety. Face your jealousy head on. Knock it on its back with exposures. You can do this! And so can I ❤️
What a great exposure exercise!!
I also struggle with my bfs past relationships even though I’ve never met the people and my bf tells me he wishes he met me years ago. I still imagine what they did together and wonder if I’m really better than his exes. My compulsions were either to search the people or ask him endlessly about them and who was better sexually etc etc. don’t give into the compulsions they just feed the cycle. And if you have to cut off social media so you don’t have access to that stuff, that might help. If I had Facebook I would be in big trouble.
Our compulsions are the exact same. You’re exactly right about not giving in. Keep up the good work! And yeah I need to delete FB lol
Random blah-blah: I have GAD, and I think I have OCD too. I don't say that suffer from ocd since I'm not diagnosed. My ex-therapist suggested me to look up for bipolar disorder. The problem is, after half an year, I still don't think I am bipolar. Did my research inside my brain, as well as on the internet. The thing is, I am obssesing over my mental health. OCD was the last disorder that I checked, since I thought it's impossible for me to have it. I am anxious about this one. I am scared. I want to know if I have ocd, and since yesterday, that s all I am doing. Looking up on the internet to find an answer. I am scared if I book a call, the therapist will say: but you have GAD, not OCD. And this will be so bad because I... I honestly can t imagine why it would be so bad. Just that I ve lived in a lie for 2 days. I think my ocd is most obvious in my relationship with my bf. And I feel so bad because he keeps saying that everything he does - is never enough. It s complicated. I just want him to never doubt himself, his actions and our love.
I was trying really hard not to like google incessantly and go on Reddit and stuff but I caved and I went down this rabbit hole of watching tik toks of women coming out and like comparing/contrasting my experiences with them. How do you stop yourself from doing these things? Especially when it feels like you have to watch the videos in order to like, “figure it out” and whatever. SO-OCD is SO HARD especially when sexuality is so fluid anyway. It’s so frustrating!!
I posted about this yesterday but I feel like I’m in an extremely obsessive cycle right now. So basically I started college and moved into dorms. My roommate and I were cool at first then began to experience some issues. Mainly codependency on both ends. So I pulled back to regain control of my emotions and also to make better decisions since I don’t want codependent friendship. I did this with the help and guidance of my therapist. I have also been in therapy for almost two years. So today, my friend seems bothered in class bc she has her nursing cohort in class and Idk if she wanted to go talk to them rather than me or what she wanted to do but she usually says bye to me after class and she just got up and left. Which was odd to me. She then was super silent later in when she got home to the dorms so I asked if wverhtbing was ok she said yeah and said she had a headache. While that may be true she hadn’t been quiet toward me or like that in the past. So anyways I’ve been in an obsessive cycle of trying to “find answers” as to what’s wrong with me and why I struggled in friendship my whole life. Why I’ve chosen some unkind friends before. I have searched the internet up and down trying to figure out what is “wrong with me” and see if I’m unliksble or if there’s traits that need “fixing” so I can be liked better. This also enables me to go into perfectionist mode and remind myself of all the flaws I have and try to fix them. It’s exhausting and tiring. I’ve done some major work on myself in therapy these past two years and have actually made drastic changes, yet I still sometimes feel like why haven’t I mad decent good friends, and why am I feeling like a bad person all the time even when I’ve improved a lot of things. Any advice. Is this a compulsion?? I feel like it is bc my brain freaken hurts and I feel like I am looping. I got home around 4:30 today and have been on the intnernt for four hours searching smh.
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