Podcast Ep 28: How Confessing Your Thoughts to your Partner is Making your ROCD worse
If you’ve ever found yourself confessing your intrusive thoughts to your partner in order to feel better, you’re not alone! However, you might be doing more harm to yourself and to your relationship than good. In this episode, I offer a compassionate view on where the urge to confess comes from, along with some reframes of how to stop it so that you can trust yourself and relieve your partner from the burden of having to rescue you from your discomfort.
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Natalie Kennedy @Anxiouslovecoach
Time Stamps:
4:50 - Our preoccupation with “doing the right thing”
7:15 - The danger of taking your thoughts at face value
9:20 - Do we really need to share every detail in our heads with our partners?
11:30 - The risks behind “testing” our partners
18:25 - Directly asking for a need to be met
22:15 - Savoring your own secrets and owning your “bad” side
