"Valentine's Day is supposed to be a celebration of love and romance, but if you have romance-related OCD, also known as ROCD, then the recent celebration of love may have instead been a trigger for obsessions and compulsions around trying to determine if the person you are with is the right person. Doubt about whether your partner is truly the love of your life can become overwhelming and trap you"
"in a vicious cycle of constantly questioning the quality of your love or your partner's. It can prompt you to break up prematurely, then make up, and then repeat the cycle repeatedly without ever reaching any certainty about whether you made the right decision. You are left with the burning question, "How do I know if this person is the right one for me?""
Romance-related OCD (ROCD) produces persistent, intrusive doubts about whether a partner is the right person and undermines trust in one's own relationship judgments. ROCD fixates on imagined 'what if' futures in which a partner will let someone down rather than on present-day evidence. ROCD leads to over-interpreting small or insignificant flaws and avoiding assessment of the here and now. ROCD frequently triggers repetitive cycles of breaking up and reconciling without ever reaching certainty. Normal caution about relationship quality can resemble ROCD, making differentiation difficult. Arguing with obsessive doubts tends to increase uncertainty, anxiety, and relationship instability.
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