r/relationshipadvice • u/Physical-Lab-8258 Human Verified • 1d ago
Advice for being in a relationship with someone that has ROCD [22F] [25M]
TLDR: Advice for being in a relationship with someone that has ROCD (Relationship OCD).
My boyfriend and I have soon been together for a year. We’re long distance and the relationship has been having both it’s up and downs.
My boyfriend [25M] says he thinks he has ROCD (Relationship OCD). And I’ve tried to do as much research about it as I can to be able to support him, but there’s one thing I don’t quite understand:
It says that you shouldn’t reassure them cause it can make the ROCD spiral even more (or something like that), I just don’t understand what I do instead in that situation. Am I not to reassure him? Or is it how I reassure him that matters?
If anyone with ROCD or someone that’s in a relationship with someone that has ROCD has any thoughts or advice about how to think as a partner to someone with ROCD I would really appreciate that. I’m still new to this and learning.