I've been divorced for more than three years. I think I'm reasonably well adjusted to the divorce. But every once in awhile, something will happen or I'll read something and I'll feel a sense of heartbreak. Just now, while reading, I came across this line: "He seems to constantly appreciate something simple about our lives...: we get to spend time together."
Since I have removed emotion and expectations from my marriage, I have been able to accept the things I see and acknowledge myself and face reality better.
Observation Today. I started a project of removing some old mulch in a flower bed. While I was gone to the store, H got out his homemade "dirt sifter" and started to scoop the old mulch into it.
I just can't keep hoping that he is going to get his shit together. He was fired from his job in April and his severance pay runs out Aug 15th. He has applied for one job. He has been not working for 10 weeks and he has applied for *one* job. I worked 7:30 to 6:30 on Monday and when I got home he said what should we do for dinner? I thought to myself well you've been home for the last 11 hours and I've been at work. I said tacos. He said no tacos are too much work. I said ok, pancakes from a mix. He said will you do the dishes and I'll make dinner.
I learned my wife had adhd 2 years ago but was ignorant in how at actually attributed to our relationship and who she was as a whole. She went on medication and I waived it off as something she can change if she worked at it hard enough. I also did not yet contribute the adhd to the the textbook struggles we were having that every adhd couple seems to have I’m learning. I did not educate myself enough on adult adhd and attributed the things I saw wrong as character flaws that could be changed.
To my ADHD spouse:
As I sit here, I wonder why I allowed myself to go so far in our relationship; one that has been entirely unfulfilling for over a decade.
Be Careful What You Tolerate. You are Teaching People How to Treat You.
Dear all,
I finally plucked up my courage to share my experience in this forum. Apologies in advance for the long essay.
When I first read an article by Melissa Orlov on ADHD marriage, I cried so badly because many of the points mentioned resonate with what I experienced in the past 3 years. It’s like I finally understood what I was going through.
My husband & I dated for 6 years & we are married for 3 years. We have a 3 year-old child.
Being real with ourselves (about our state) is the only way to move forward (be content w/ our lives and our selves) in life....I would say most of us who post here, have been stunted when it comes to experiencing what we were created to experience....Not because of things like intelligence, work ethic, convictions about right living (hopefully ;)....This stunting has come to pass by our dislike of circumstances out of our control...If I spend and inordinate amount of time having negative emotions, and over thinking the way someone else lives life (even when I am married to the person) what
Where to begin?!
I just came back from vacation with my wife, who only admits to having ADHD when it is a "you can't blame me because I have ADHD" excuse, and our two kids.
She almost left her body pillow in a hotel room--until I reminded her to check because she had previously had to buy new ones after leaving them in hotel rooms.
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