The ADHD Effect on Marriage

Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps

De: Melissa Orlov

Narrado por: Laura Jennings

An invaluable resource for couples in which one of the partners suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), this authoritative book guides troubled marriages toward an understanding of and appreciation for the struggles and triumphs of a relationship affected by it and to look at the disorder in a more positive and less disruptive way. Going beyond traditional marriage counseling, this discussion offers advice from the author's personal experience and years of research and identifies patterns of behavior that can hurt marriages - such as nagging, intimacy problems, sudden anger, and memory issues - through the use of vignettes and descriptions of actual couples and their ADHD struggles and solutions. This resource encourages both spouses to become active partners in improving their relationship and healing the fissures that ADHD can cause.

©2010 Melissa Orlov (P)2017 Tantor

Changed my life - I now have awareness

I turned to this book after my wife of 9 years had multiple affairs over the last year. When I started listening to the book, it was a mirror of my marriage. I had thought I was ADHD most of my life but never addressed it. I asked my dr about adderrall 3 years ago which he wrote a script and although it helped for some time, well as I said I recently found out about affairs. When I realized that ADHD symptoms could be the cause for the space between us (multiple examples) I seemed out help from an adhd specialist. I was formerly diagnose with ADHD and a serious case of it. For the last two months I have been working on myself and I have a new awareness that my first path of thinking is my ADHD and through the tools in this book and journaling my thoughts, I now now how to get to my second path of thinking. If you think you have ADHD or your partner does, read this book! I wish I could get my wife to read it but I haven’t been able to get her to. Although were working on our marriage through counseling, this book was was unlocked my mind and provided me with awareness. I can never go back to my old way of not being aware. This book may have changed my awareness forever... now to make change. Thank you.

Very Helpful. More insight into ADHD female.

Great advice. Needs more input from non-ADHD man's point of view, experiences, and insights, as the male-female dynamic is different with an ADHD female partner.

women have adhd also

my only issue is the book makes it sound like only men have adhd and not women.

Amazing book

she really described my entire life dealing with a spouse with ADHD (,not yet diagnosed). I feel more comfortable now on how to approach him and how to handle different situations. I highly recommend it.

This book may have changed my life!

I would recommend this book to any couple who is struggling with ADHD. I am 43 and was diagnosed about 8 months ago. I went to therapy, got on meds, started reading books on how to change my habits and how to just be ok with who I was learning I really was. I have struggled with attention my entire life but never once did having ADD cross my mind. My struggles have reigned supreme in relationships, failed marriages, failed friendships, just basically failing to keep anyone of importance in my life. I could attribute some of that to life seasonal changes, but I never really knew that there could be another underlying issue. My wife and I have been together for 10 years and she has constantly told me that I don’t live in the moment and she was tired of having to do all the housework… I could go on and on, but everything in this book about how you make someone feel when you have undiagnosed ADHD is spot on. It took my wife deploying and other things I will not dive into for me to be pushed into this journey. What an awakening!
I was looking for another self help book when I found this book and holy sh!t is it spot on. Read or listen to this book if you are suffering in an ADHD relationship, it may change your life too.