How to stop OBSESSING over weddings and marriage?

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Mikurotoro92
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19 Nov 2025, 11:05 pm

I have this awful all-consuming obsession right now about getting married and I want to know how to stop?

All this is doing is causing anxiety and I DESPERATELY need to find something to distract from this!! !

Please help

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19 Nov 2025, 11:13 pm

I don't think I can offer much advice here lol, because I have a bloody obsession too and I can't get rid of it. I'm actually married, yet I have an obsession with another bloke. Ugh, how has this happened? I haven't had an obsession like this since 2014!

Are you in a relationship (something I should know about you from your other threads but I forgot, so forgive me lol)? If you are then just get married. I did. It's great.


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19 Nov 2025, 11:16 pm

Tamaya wrote:
I don't think I can offer much advice here lol, because I have a bloody obsession too and I can't get rid of it. I'm actually married, yet I have an obsession with another bloke. Ugh, how has this happened? I haven't had an obsession like this since 2014!

Are you in a relationship (something I should know about you from your other threads but I forgot, so forgive me lol)? Just get married. I did. It's great.


Yes, and I am engaged but David is currently in rehab right now plus I'm legitimately scared of getting married but at the same time I want it so I'm kinda stuck in an ambivalant state right now...



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19 Nov 2025, 11:22 pm

Mikurotoro92 wrote:
Tamaya wrote:
I don't think I can offer much advice here lol, because I have a bloody obsession too and I can't get rid of it. I'm actually married, yet I have an obsession with another bloke. Ugh, how has this happened? I haven't had an obsession like this since 2014!

Are you in a relationship (something I should know about you from your other threads but I forgot, so forgive me lol)? Just get married. I did. It's great.


Yes, and I am engaged but David is currently in rehab right now plus I'm legitimately scared of getting married but at the same time I want it so I'm kinda stuck in an ambivalant state right now...


Yeah that happened to me before getting married, although for different reasons to you. Our financial circumstances were not very stable and we were almost living in poverty. We were lucky to get a large lump sum from one of my husband's short-term pensions and we used it to pay for the cheapest wedding in the world (which was still over £300) but unfortunately we didn't have all the legitimate documents and, cut a long story short, lost all the money we had paid and had to find that money and go through the process all over again, with some financial support from my father. It was annoying and exhausting, but at the same time I really wanted to get married, for both love and security. It's nice being married, but the amount of times I have written the wrong surname when signing important documents is just embarrassing.


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20 Nov 2025, 2:52 am

I would call off the wedding if you have doubts or our ambivalent like you said.



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20 Nov 2025, 11:31 am

Based on my experience there is nothing that majorly stops me from obsessing. There are a couple things that can help me though. One is trying to distract myself by focusing on other things including improving life stuff. The other is OCD medication. I'll also mention the suggestion of talking to a councelier but I haven't had much experience with that personally.


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