I donāt know where to begin, this is going to be very long. But whoever responds I appreciate you dearly.
Iām 20 years old, Iāve 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 donāt love my partner/heās not attractive enough/ etc etc. Iāve discovered that itās ROCD. I made threads on Reddit asking for advice googling for reassurance, all the things as one would do with ocd (as Iām 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 doesnāt love me, heās cheating, he doesnāt 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 heās acting weird, will get into arguments 24/7 because my brain keeps telling me heās 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 Iām in an ocd spiral and they have no idea somethingās are triggering) anyways, we were out to lunch and his mother texts him āare u at some girls houseā he told me straight away then responded āwhy would u say thatā then she proceeded to say sheās messing around with him. And sent a picture of me and said Iām 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 manās 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 sheās 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 didnāt mean to freak me out and felt like shit about it. Ever since then sheās been acting kind of weird towards me (not really) maybe sheās uncomfortable or thereās another women idk LOL. Anyways yea what the hell do I do I literally canāt function properly.