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I saw this on Facebook.

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Unpopular opinion:

The attitude of "that's just how I am take it or leave it" is still a sign of immaturity.

As an adult, it's your responsibility to figure out which of your traits are toxic and are negatively impactful towards other people and the ones you love, and to eventually learn how to fix them.

At some point we all got to start making ourselves better individuals. If you truly believe you don't have to change anything about yourself even at the very least the worst in you, and that people will just have to deal with it then sorry, you're still a child.

Simple life

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?

Husband with ADHD

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. 

I don't know that I can do this in the long run

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Husband is 52, I'm 31. Been together 7 years, married for 4 with a three and a half year old daughter. In the last 6 years husband started a side company that has taken up so much time, caused no end of headaches, two lawsuits, a bad business partner break-up and a bankruptcy. I felt I did most of the parenting alone to be honest, as he was too busy with work (working a lot, but not effectively I've come to realise), and we couldn't afford daycare (I'm English and my family are all in England, Husband's family in Canada, and we live in CA for his work - so no family to help out either).

Cheating

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.

Vacation

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.

My ADHD husband and my ADHD husband are at war

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.

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