The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps
by Melissa Orlov
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.
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Kim’s Review – This book was my first exposure to ADHD. I was researching what could possibly be going on with my husband, all while having no idea I was the one who had it! (Although I believe he really does have ADHD along with narcissism.) Aside from all this, I do think it’s important for the non-ADHD spouse to realize what’s going on and why things are they way they are. Understanding leads to acceptance. Didn’t work for me and my REALLY toxic, abusive relationship, but it could definitely help other couples!
Highly recommend – ★★★★★
