Texting – Aftermath

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Hi, one of my themes is Harm OCD. I was talking to an older lady on a dating app and it started off kinda saucy. She sent a pic of herself (would say suggestive), I replied back with a pic of me. The convo eventually got more like that. I asked if she’d like to see a [content edited by Moderators – please see our mandatory Forum Guidelines: https://ocdaction.org.uk/site-rules-and-community-standards/] and she said yes [content edited by Moderators] which I mentioned to her. She didn’t seem bothered but unmatched a few minutes later

This is an overview of the convo but I could do with some feedback on how bad this is? Neither of us discussed consent, beforehand (which was stupid), I should have asked to send the pic and saying that [content edited by Moderators] probably a bit vulgar. I also tried to screenshot part of the convo (for my own use – no one else’s), the app prevented me but in hindsight this wasn’t a smart idea

All my pics were from last year when I was a bit fitter (I have an FYI in my profile saying that I need to update them) so am wondering was this deceptive of me?

I’m a spiral right now and finding it hard to reconcile what could partially be OCD with something that could also be a real event

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