My fiance\', Sean, has been doing really well.  He finally stopped seeing the psychiatrist about 6 months ago and started to see his primary care physician about the OCD.  Sean\'s physician explained the disorder to his mom.  This finally helped her understand that Sean will probably need to be on medicine for the rest of his life because there is actually something wrong with him that she cannot cure by telling him to be happy.  He has been remembering to take his medicine every day with the exception of once or twice when he forgot to get it refilled.  The days he didn\'t refill the medicine, I noticed he twitched more than he has been and he was very moody.  He has been extremely pleasant to be around.  He has definitely returned to his happy-go-lucky self.  I know it must be a struggle for him and for all of you suffering from OCD.  It has to get old feeling as though you must go through your routines, whatever they may be, for fear of whatever you worry the consequence of not performing the action may be.  Sometimes I get very impatient with him, but I\'ve learned to deal with it in other ways.  Every disorder affects the people we love as well as it affects us. I do not believe anyone in this world is perfectly healthy.  At some point something ails us all, but it is very important to have people who support us in our lives.  I hope that for the most part I am very supportive to Sean.  I hope that I do not get impatient too often.  I try really hard to be very patient.  Most of the time I think the rituals are very cute.  I\'m very accustomed to them.  At first, it was very hard for me to not pick up on the rituals and do them myself.  I think I have more self control since I do not suffer from OCD.  The only OCD I have is when I go overboard trying to organize things in my life in order to keep them straight with my ADHD; therefore, I can control myself.  I can tell myself the logical thing, that nothing bad will happen if I do not eat my food in even numbers, which I used to do, etc.  Life is beautiful and it is only getting better.  We set our wedding date for winter 2010.  I am very excited about this new year.  I am going to be an Aunt x2 this year :o).