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When to give up.

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This is my first post and thank you for reading!

I am currently married, my husband was first diagnosed with ADHD this year at age 58.  This is my second marriage, his first, we have been married for 10 years, no children together, I have an adult daughter from my first marriage of 22 years.

Phone addiction

My un-medicated ADHD wife is addicted to her phone. Sometimes I feel like she has a better relationship with her phone than me. We have been together almost 10 years. Ever since the birth of our son a few years ago, I feel very left behind by her. I know I sound like a baby! I miss my wife. We have carved out time for date nights on Saturday nights. There is still a feeling of disconnect sometimes. I just feel better typing this out.

Did I do the right thing?

I told my ADHD husband tonight that I have been offered a new job and have accepted it.  I chose not to involve him at all whilst I went through the recruitment process, as I didn't want his negative opinions influencing me as I needed to be very focused in my approach with this role.  Well, I certainly made the wrong decision here.  He absolutely went ballistic and ranted for hours about all the things I have done to hurt him during our marriage.  In hindsight, I should have told him when I was interviewing but I never know what mood he'll be in on any particular day but as he came home in

Repairs

Grieving and trying to understand what's happened in my recently ended marriage to an ADD partner. I don't think I've seen discussions specifically on relationship repair and ADD and wonder what experiences others have with this.

I've always felt that solving of conflict or unhappiness in the relationship was highest priority. To reach out, talk, exchange perspectives and find common ground was imperative. I wouldn't rest until we could reconnect.

Hi, new here :)

I've been visiting this forum for a few years now ever since I realised that my husband must have ADHD - some of his family are diagnosed; he isn't and we can't financially afford a diagnosis at the moment. I read about ADHD to help us both but he doesn't do any research on his own. He thinks he has ADHD too; he had a school-teacher who mentioned to his mother that he most probably has it as well as his (out of control) diagnosed brother.

Anger, trauma, loss

I'm a 52 year old man, diagnosed a week ago, on my second day of medication. Obviously that's a mixed outcome, it's great news, very late. After a lifetime of struggles to achieve what I thought I should achieve in school and in my career, I have some explanation. I went from a college dropout to a honors graduate of a top law school, there were failures and struggles, but real successes too, it's just I needed to be interested (and it really helped in law school that I needed to focus and produce for only 3 hours per class at the end of each semester).

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