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I just got the book ADHD Effect on Marriage. I am the partner of a wonderfully messed up man. If it was only ADHD. But I see how it has effected all his choices . How many times I have tried to talk to him about choices! Anyhow this is about hope. Today I start a new adventure and hope with his and my effort we can find happiness because we are still in love. Go figure I don't know how it is possible. He was diagnosed in childhood and was on med. for years till  either he didn't take it anymore or his parents just gave up.

Hi everyone,

I'm battling trying to get a better grip on my ADHD and my biggest problems is Insomnia. I've tried natural herbs, teas even doubled up and taking them two or three hours before bedtime. Nothing much is helping, either I just dont sleep or I wake every 2 or 3 hours and my head goes into action.

What do some of you that also have sleeping problems use or do to overcome this issue. I become such an emotional wreck without sleep, it's embarrassing.

When my husband's angry, upset, frustrated, hungry, overtired, "triggered," or just took his medicine / forgot to take his medicine, the diva behavior comes out. Today, he pulled a Naomi on me -- that's right, he screamed at me and threw a phone at me.

...and I think my ADHD fiance has blown a gasket.

So I have been learning new things every day.  Today I learned that I really have to change not just saying it actually do it.  My wife has been telling me the problems she has been facing with our marriage I have always took the blame and said I would change but two days later back to doing the same thing over and over to the point now that we have found out that I have ADHD and know that I was not doing those things on purpose.  Having ADHD is not a excess though it may be the reason why but you cannot live life using ADHD as a excuse to ignore you wife or treat your marriage as a norma

I was diagnosed with ADHD only a couple of months ago along with anxiety disorder. I am not any medication, but on breathing exercises and other physical treatments. However, my condition has caused the demise of my seven-year relationship of which 5 were spent in marriage. My husband is a good man with some faults which i was incapable of dealing with in socially appropriate ways. For example, lack of responses to questions or vague answers and explanations used to eat at me so much that i would get angry, aggressive, and sometimes violent.

My wife left me 2 years ago thinking I was abusive.  After a long battle I got a custody evaluation that came down hard on her saying how controlling she is and how great of a dad I am.  I know I have ADD and have a tendency to laziness, but the last 2 years I have made huge strides using some of the coping techniques described in some of these books.  Well, the evaluation coming back so strongly in my favor, everyone saying how much I've grown, and the kids begging to live with me every single day has made an impression.  Suddenly, she's talking about trying things again.

Hi there!

So I'm very new to this forum after spending the week Googling myself into oblivion, which is what I do when I'm trying to figure something out.

I'm hoping that someone else with my same issue can at least offer some support. My husband and I have been married for almost 5 years. I did not know that he had been diagnosed with ADHD as a child, but I did know that he had many behavior problems as a kid. His parents medicated him for a short time, but stopped when he said that he did not like it (around age 8 or so), and he never received other treatment for ADHD that I know of. They just decided to "trust God" that he would grow out of it.