Supporting my partner

[Hannah221b]

Hi there. I have my own experience with depression, anxiety and panic attacks and have done for the past 7 or 8 years. I've been with my partner for just under 2 years and he's an amazing human being, and I want to support him as much as possible with his own mental health, specifically his OCD. I know over the past 2 years I've helped him to relax and not worry too much about things, but there are certain things that he is adamant about. A lot of the time things such as checking the door is locked multiple times is not actually a problem for me, because it's really reassuring in day to day life.

Does anyone have any tips or advice about how to be supportive with OCD habits that can get out of control? We're hoping to move house within the next few months, and this will be our first home together with just the two of us, so I want to be accommodating in terms of picking a flat/house that will suit his OCD triggers, such as his carbon monoxide, fire and lock/security anxieties. These are all perfectly brilliant things to be aware of, of course, but I do worry a bit that he might get worse in terms of his tics when we do move into a place, at least for the first few weeks.

Does anyone have advice for accommodating these kind of anxieties and tics?