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Yes. I can't remember if I've struggled with this specifically, but I know of others who have had similar fears. In a way, this is kind of an obsessive fear in itself...right?
Sometimes it feels this way for me, it’s been a miserable past few days
It is somewhat self-centered, I suppose, but I think it's natural and human. Of course, the ideal is to have a "pure," unselfish love, and I think that God can gradually sanctify us to make us more pure. But I don't think that we have to expect ourselves to have totally pure motives right from the start. At least, I don't know of any human being who does.
We OCDers tend to expect WAY too much of ourselves!!
