Relationship OCD is a form of OCD where obsessions center on whether your relationship is right, healthy, or worth staying in. Common signs include constant questioning, checking your feelings, and comparing your relationship to others. The key difference from settling: OCD obsessions drive compulsions to reduce uncertainty, while settling is a choice you make once.
Am I really settling in this relationship, or am I struggling with relationship ocd? We're going to break it down because it's really important to understand and be able to answer this question for yourself so you can move forward and be happy and healthy in your relationships. Relationship OCD is not a diagnosis. It's just a subset of OCD that that consists of obsessions about your relationship. Maybe the rightness of your relationship, the health of your relationship, or your happiness in the relationship, followed by compulsions, the things you're doing to alleviate your discomfort or to gain certainty or perfection, to feel better. Common signs of a relationship OCD Constantly questioning the rightness of your relationship, whether you're compatible enough, your feelings, their feelings, comparing your relationships to others. And this can be in romantic relationships, family relationships, friendships. It doesn't matter what type of relationship it's in.
