| Frustrated with potentially OCD DH
I think my husband has OCD.
His 'checking' rituals are driving me insane.
Since he was a young boy, he would get angry when someone (at this time) would dust his room and things would be moved from the specific place he assigned them. When we began sharing accomodations many moons ago, I gave up on dusting because he would literally go behind me and adjust them to the way he needed them to be.
Now, 13 years later, he is still doing the dusting and it has advanced to now these 'checking' rituals. He checks the usual OCD things like doors and windows but also, he checks the outlets, light switches (had a house fire as a child), the faucets have to be aligned and he does this weird little thing where he couples his hands together and raises them up and down while checking the faucet...whatever this is. He does this alone but of course, you are sometimes bound to catch him.
He is passing this on to our daughter, now 6 and I feel bad for her and her sister and me too. It is driving us crazy. I avoid going downstairs and the kids are not freely allowed to go downstairs because it will upset daddy. He would then be uneasy about the state of the downstairs.
The kids rarely have friends in (unless it's just mommy home) because it stresses daddy out.
I'm at my whitts end. I wish I knew how to help him! He knows I am now aware that there is a problem but he just gets defensive if I bring it up. Maybe that's because I am usually silent about it unless I get so frustrated I just blow.
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