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Has this happened during a conversation with your ADHD spouse or significant other?

I started feeling sick last Thursday.  That night, I tried to go to bed a bit early, but my wife and daughter (10) were up screaming at each other in the next room until after midnight.

I crave a quiet simple life. I find I am trying to carve that out for myself within the confines of a chaotic marriage. I rarely do any social things with my DH. I have my few people that I see separately from him. I have my much loved children and grandchildren. I have my furbaby. And I have my daily routines which drive my DH crazy. He wants to run constantly and can't stand the mundane of daily stuff. Isn't that what life is mostly made up of? The daily stuff?

Hi all,
My Husband was recently diagnosed with ADD.
I was so pleased for him that he finally had answers as to why he does things a certain way and such. The problem in having is coping with the way he answers questions. 
I find he gets very confused easily and will sometimes over explain a situation, or under explain it. Or the worst one is he'll almost disregard the question you ask him and jump in with a different answer to what would have come from a different question. 

My ADHD husband and I have been married for 20 years. We have had our ups and downs but the last year has just been a down.  Neither wants to call it quits and I’ve signed us up for the marriage seminar.  However I can’t shake this feeling that my H hasn’t been faithful.  I have asked and he denies it.  Still my gut says he has and as I get older my gut instinct are pretty good.  I need my husband to understand that I need to know what we are recovering from. With this suspicion it really puts a damper on my willingness to work to make things better.

So my DH just came barreling into the room telling me we are going to Mexico. No discussion no asking if I'd like to go...A buddy of his is going and my DH would like to go too. I do not want to go anywhere with him at this point. This is a man who screams at me daily. Treats me as if I'm a huge imposition to him but I'm supposed to be thrilled to go on a holiday with him. I do not understand at all.

I’m trapped in the hell of my ADHD husband and 18 yr old ADHD son at war.  My husband and I have a relationship on the brink and this extra piece makes it all worse.  I thought my husband would be sympathetic to my son since they share such similar struggles however the opposite happens.  My husband cuts our son no slack for all the same things he does.  Our son is in college and comes home most weekends ( a fact that amazes me since home is not a relaxing place to be for him).  I feel completely helpless.

I've been married for almost 25 years. My husband has never been officially diagnosed. During my first years of marriage, I believed our communication problems were due  to the classic tale of Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. I tried all the different approaches that this sort of literature suggested. None really seemed to work.  A few years ago, a good friend of mine and child education; suggested that my husband may have ADD. As I began researching and taking workshops (one of my daughters has it) I've come to the realization that my husband also suffers from this.

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