Abstract
This is a story about how my obsessive lifestyle inhibits the development of a new intimate relationship. The story unfolds in three parts—the first, documenting obsessive disorders from two medical perspectives; the second, personalizing the disorder in terms of my past relational life; and the third, working through my current relationship through an extended conversation between that intimate other and me.
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