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My husband has ADHD, dyslexia, depression, has been laid off twice in recent years, and is a pretty nasty (verbally abusive), and angry with me all the time. We have been to see professionals (the top of the food chain), marriage counseling, and now our first grader is in therapy once a week, as am I - the solo breadwinner in our house. We have been married for 8.5 years now, two kids, boy 7, girl 5. Oh, he probably drinks too much as well.

More and more lies and broken promises keep cropping up.  It is clear he has ADD and has always had it. The more cover-ups and deceit and missed times lines the more I think maybe he really doesn't care about me.  

Maybe he deserves someone more capable of really likes the constant "live by the seat of your pants" existence.  Someone less traditional and more flexible. Someone that can laugh at the years she's waited to have things fixed and she roll with the punches (instead of feeling punched).  There must be someone out there that can make him happy.

This weekend I went to a work function with my husband and blurted out a comment that was inappropriate in front of one of his coworkers. It was the final straw that broke his back and I am terrified he is really done with me now. 

Three long years and very slight improvement? ok maybe on my behalf,i had to learn "his way" follow "his way" or else i would be running out of labels...Fact remains,(HE WOULD NEVER CHANGE)...In order for my marriage to work i had to change my way of understanding to value his,my way of motivation to stand along side him,my way of every single thing to accommodate his way..

Hello! It's nice to find this site. I will apologize for the rambling from the start. I just want to give facts.  I was professionally diagnosed with ADD about 2.5 years ago. I felt for a LONG time there was something wrong with me that I could not control. I am now 54 years old and have been married and divorced 3 times. My first marriage was right out of college and lasted for 2 years, no children. I didn't get along with his girlfriend.

I'm sorry but I feel the need to vent today.  Even if nobody reads this it makes me feel better.  :)

How do you know if someone with ADHD really does care/love you?  This has been on my mind lately.  Is it the self-centered-ness of ADHD or does he just not care?  The question I have asked myself for years except before the ADHD diagnosis it was is there something wrong with his brain or does he just not care about us?  Knowing it is ADHD has helped somewhat, but the behaviors are still there.  I've seen this trait mentioned in other posts and I experience the same thing.  My dh says he loves and cares about us but does not show it in any way.  The other day our dd had an event at school, a

Hello everyone,

I have just been broken up by an ADHD girlfriend. This girl has an amazing soul and I love her a lot but her disorder has definitely taken its toll on the relationship. I will try to be brief
 

- for the first years of her life she was subject to very harsh treatment by her parents, unaware of ADHD, especially her father, since it was only diagnosed later

- she grew up with severe learning disabilities which were softened with medication (Concerta) and a lot of support at school

I am in a running battle with my ADHD husband about the back porch. He wants to enclose it as an office. He knows NOTHING about building construction, but yet INSISTS he can do this. I have put my foot down and said ABSOLUTELY NOT because of the permits, the building codes and knowing FULL WELL what it's going to look like when he gets "done" with it.

     There are already at least 2 dozen projects around the house that have yet to be completed, and they have been staring us in the face for years now. I CAN'T HANDLE ANOTHER UNDONE PROJECT....ESPECIALLY A GREAT BIG ONE.

Does anyone know about Dr. Leon Eisenberg (the father of ADHD) said on his deathbed that he "made up ADHD". He also said the condition was for the selling of pharmaceuticals and to make drug companies richer and not for the well being of children. Does anyone KNOW about this? Maybe you Melissa? What do you make of this?

I KNOW FOR A FACT, that my husband DOES have ADHD, due to the change in him from the medications, AND from the hereditary conditions his family members had. But, WHY would this Dr. who supposedly STARTED the diagnosis of ADHD, then say it was a ficticious disease?