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When sexual orientation OCD creates relationship anxiety

I keep having thoughts about being gay even though I am married to a woman I love and these thoughts are destroying my sleep.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The mind has turned identity itself into a question that demands constant answering, creating suffering where none existed.

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