Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you.

Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life.

And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual

hug because experiencing anxiety ain't easy.

If that sounds good to you, let's go.

Today we are talking about how OCD affects relationships and what partners need to know.

Today we have Christina all over on to discuss how to support the partners of people with OCD as they navigate recovery.

Thank you so much, Christina, for being here.

Oh, thanks for having me, Kim.

This is exciting.

I feel like so often, often a lot of my podcasts come from conversations with clients.

And so often partners will come in and they just don't know what to say.

They don't know how to act.

They're struggling with their own experience of their partner having OCD. So I really wanted this to be not only just for the

person with OCD, but for the partner so that they have some directions. So thank you for being here.

Opinions you could say or things to share. Well, let's start there. Can you tell us a little bit about

why you specifically are interested in this topic, in whatever you feel comfortable sharing?

Yeah, I mean, I've been pretty open about even, even for my, about, like in my show and all my

socials that I have OCDCD and I've really learned about this

in later life. And I've recently got married this year in June and my now husband, well,

he also has OCD. So not only like I didn't know that I was living with R OCD as one of my

manifestations, but then also to find out that my partner has OCD, it's just been an interesting

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