Husband's Turn

Posted May 12th, 2008 by MelissaOrlov
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Many on this site have asked for my husband's ideas and opinions.  What's it like to have a non-ADD wife?  How did you come to terms with what ADD symptoms affect your marriage?  George has agreed to answer your questions here...but to keep him from being on the hook forever, I'm asking that you send your questions now (respond to this post) and up until May 23.  Then we'll let him get back to his own life!

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Can we still ask George

On June 23rd, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Can we still ask George questions?

Q&A

On June 23rd, 2008 admin said:

Yes, you may.  I have been a little busy lately with the "day job", but scan thru the comments at least once a day to weed out the spam from the approval queue, so I will see your question in a timely manner.  George

Calendars

On May 14th, 2008 sapphyre said:

Hi George

I am the non-ADHD partner. I like to use a monthly whiteboard calendar to help us organise things, but my ADHD husband always ignores it and only looks at it if he's desperate (i.e. I'm not home to tell him someone's phone number or remind him about appointments).

I'm wondering, could it be that there is too much information in my 2' x 2.5' calendar / noteboard, each day jam packed? Should I stick to a simpler calendar (maybe a week rather than a month), and maybe move phone numbers and to-do lists to another area?

Thanks

Sapphyre

You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. - The Doctor

calendars

On July 2nd, 2008 scott said:

Coming from someone who has ADHD, I would say a smaller calendar is better, if I see a large calendar or long list I just see a whole mess of things that I probably won't get accomplished. I have to keep it to 2 or 3 most important things and 2 "if I have time" items. That works better for me personally.I cant see 30 days of things to do, it freaks me out.