- Username
- Whatabtme
- Date posted
- 636d ago
- Relationship OCD
- Sexual Orientation OCD
My fiancé and I just bought a house together. We have been living with each other two weeks now. It definitely spiked my SO-OCD. But I leaned into the discomfort and went with my values. I know he makes me happy and that this was the right decision and I’m not going to let ocd take that away. Intimacy has been definitely harder because I am constantly thinking about if I am turned on enough. But I’m trying
Thank you for sharing. I'm sure that must be challenging in the face of your ocd but it's amazing that you've chosen to live on your values and not let the disorder control your decision. I have anxiety around it but have already been living with my partner a few years and feel like it's silly to think that going from renting to buying is much different, but it's my ocd that makes me think it's a threat. I have struggled for a long time now with avoiding intimacy because of my soocd so I think a big fear I have is "I'm not being intimate with him now, so it's not right for us to buy a house together". My ocd makes me think I need to get rid of the ocd and fear before I move forward, but I know the best way to combat the ocd is to do what I want and not wait for the fear to subside.
I have and my ocd made me think it was a bad idea and that I needed certainty before I did it. At the time I was not diagnosed and didn’t realize it was ocd.