Anonymous
6/13/2025, 6:01:15 PM No.33213829
I (man) have rOCD (diagnosed, its about relationships, in which I will ruminate on negative thoughts for many hours or google for many hours when I have an intrusive thought) and when I get too close in a relationship I have always been the one to break it off because of anxiety. I can’t stop thinking about negative things. And then the anxiety boils over and I end it
I love a woman I knew for many years, and we started dating
I thought that I would be able to control it with her because she’s the only person I’ve ever dated that I loved. But after a few months of dating, I sent her a message with my anxieties which were
>Us not officially dating was making me nervous
>She wouldn’t let me pay for things and it was frustrating me because I foresaw us arguing about it, I wanted to just pay for everything
>I was worried she wouldn’t take care of herself because she didn’t go to the doctor for an infected cut which she later had to go to the hospital for, didn’t have an updated eye prescription, and wouldn’t go to an orthodontist which I thought she needed to go to because of various things like missing molars can cause long term jaw decay etc. I later learned that for these latter two she was either unaware or planning to go. This offended her GREATLY
She was very upset with me understandably, but I did not want to break up I just was releasing my anxieties that built up and I felt better after I did. She forgave me and came back to me, she said she knew it in her heart that it was right to see me again. A month later things were going extremely well, so well I was thinking about marriage. But this brought a huge number of anxieties for me to consider, which I then told her:
>What if I can’t get a job
>What if our interests aren’t the same (they are, I was just being anxious)
>What if our hypothetical kids resent me for being poor
Important: all reasons I gave her are nothingburgers, just intrusive thoughts I felt and ruminated on which later passed
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I love a woman I knew for many years, and we started dating
I thought that I would be able to control it with her because she’s the only person I’ve ever dated that I loved. But after a few months of dating, I sent her a message with my anxieties which were
>Us not officially dating was making me nervous
>She wouldn’t let me pay for things and it was frustrating me because I foresaw us arguing about it, I wanted to just pay for everything
>I was worried she wouldn’t take care of herself because she didn’t go to the doctor for an infected cut which she later had to go to the hospital for, didn’t have an updated eye prescription, and wouldn’t go to an orthodontist which I thought she needed to go to because of various things like missing molars can cause long term jaw decay etc. I later learned that for these latter two she was either unaware or planning to go. This offended her GREATLY
She was very upset with me understandably, but I did not want to break up I just was releasing my anxieties that built up and I felt better after I did. She forgave me and came back to me, she said she knew it in her heart that it was right to see me again. A month later things were going extremely well, so well I was thinking about marriage. But this brought a huge number of anxieties for me to consider, which I then told her:
>What if I can’t get a job
>What if our interests aren’t the same (they are, I was just being anxious)
>What if our hypothetical kids resent me for being poor
Important: all reasons I gave her are nothingburgers, just intrusive thoughts I felt and ruminated on which later passed
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