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Thank g that I have cats, for now:  or I don't know if I would or could have gotten outta bed right now.  Now the battle of actually..packing and finishing a lot!!  I'm beginning to feel spaced...zoning out on the near by Fetzima pamplet...feeling that void that comes right before I retreat.  ...Ahhh Shit...I have it..the felling of light yet weighted null of existance.

Any suggestions/verbage that I can use now that I'm going to eventually have to tell "them".?

I'm interested in hearing from anyone but especially people with teenagers or older children on how/if an ADHD father's low frustration tolerance and angry outbursts have affected their children. I have two young ADHD children and wonder if seeing their father's reactions will affect them in the long run. I think the children need patience and calm voices which my husband with untreated ADHD has trouble providing sometimes. Husband's sudden outbursts can be about anything from other drivers, long lines, people/cars moving slowly, spilled water/food, etc.

Here is a difference between an ADDer who is trying and and ADDer who is not trying:

"There’s a difference between someone who treats you like a priority and someone who treats you as an option."

Someone who cares about you communicates honestly and sincerely even though he makes mistakes.  We all need to come clean about our mistakes.

Im the one with ADHD in the relationship. Or the one that has been diagnosed anyway. Im writing here because I have nowhere else to turn without being judged. I'm tired of wanting to say something and not doing it out of fear of starting an argument. If there is one thing I just cannot handle in this world, its my loved ones not speaking to me and being angry at me. For example tonight my bf gets home from work and asks me what I did today.

My partner of almost 18 years now, is chomping at the bit to leave. He wanted to leave then agreed to stay to help support our daughter then changed his mind again. Now, when our lease is up soon, he will be off. He 100% has ADHD but was only unofficially diagnosed when our daughter was officially diagnosed. It was recommended that he go through the diagnostic process himself to make it official but he never did and has remained in denial ever since. He reckons he's fine and it's everyone else that has the problems.

I ran across this website by Lynne Forrest the other day and when I read her descriptions of this psych- model it really was enlightening. ( I had one of those "Holy Shit!" this is good stuff moments )  I'm not endorsing anyone here or trying to make recommendations to anyone.....or assuming that this will be helpful or not for anyone else. (I found the sight randomly when I was searching for some things I was curious about)....but what I got out of it really helped answer a lot of questions ( or understand better?

Hi everyone.  So...here I am:  trying to sit, stop prolonging... and write this post (again).  Last night.  When I found this site..I thought:  Wow!  The story of my life and found momentary comfort-being understood.  It soon was followed with fear and anxiety; and a world of questions or moreso:  guidence at this point.  Oh yeah...sorry..so I wrote and replied to a post that hit me expecially hard.  And somehow, right when I got done with a surprisingly long response, I deleted or lost it all.  Sigh...REALLY!?

I couldn't take it any longer, and my 11 & 12 year old sons begged me to give in and let dad have a divorce, so I agreed to a divorce.  H hasn't moved out yet, so the fighting has escalated exponentially, and things are really bad.  He's medicating now, and in therapy for the first time.  He says the medication is a miracle, and likes the counseling but cut me out of it right away, hence another reason for my agreeing to the divorce, I told him if he cut me out it was over.  But now he's taken to saying that the reason he's been threatening me with a divorce for 23 years is because I've

I have noticed that a few of the new posters have mentioned that their relationships (even long relationships that seemed to be fine) started to get frustrating around the time a child or children were born.  This has been my experience exactly and I am currently grieving for the nuclear family we will never be.  The unpredictability, extra work, organization,etc. that come with having children has pushed my husband's coping skills to the brink which has in turn pushed our marriage to the brink.