5 Things My Husband Does to Help me Cope with OCD

1. Supports me, not the OCD. He is empathetic to my struggle and my pain, but he doesn't reassure me in order to keep the peace.
   
2. Uses his sense of humor to highlight the ridiculousness of some of my OCD fears. He doesn't mock me, but the OCD is fair game.
3. Stays curious about the disorder. He read Jonathan Grayson's book Freedom From OCD on my request. He's not a support group kind of guy, and he isn't interested in going to the International OCD Foundation Conference with me, but he does educate himself about OCD.
4. Encourages me to do exposures, and is willing to get involved. If I am obsessing about what task to do next, he'll suggest I flip a coin. In the rare cases that his ADD mind actually gets stuck on something, he'll try an exposure out himself.
5. Affirms my decision to see an ERP therapist, even though it's expensive, because he sees the progress I've made.