One step forward...twenty steps back
Ok, I wasn't sure exactly where to put this so here it is and I need to vent...like NOW!!
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Ok, I wasn't sure exactly where to put this so here it is and I need to vent...like NOW!!
Sometimes in a marriage, you have to talk to your partner about "serious" topics. Decisions must be made, options considered, or progress evaluated on things like finances, family schedules, or putting the relationship on the "front burner" now and then. My guy has told me, though, that his biggest fear in starting these "serious" conversations is that they "will never end." He said while we talk he keeps wondering "Is this almost over?" Kinda like I feel in the dentist chair? This astonished me, because we are not a couple who spends a whole evening, or even an hour either talk
If you ask me, I'd tell you that going out of town on vacation is our 2nd biggest obstacle. And we're about to go on an almost 1000 mile road trip! To say I'm nervous or have anxiety about this trip would most definitely be an understatement. So far, no matter how I've tried to make leaving town easier (for both of us), I still end up with the same amounts of frustration and resentment. When DH is around his family (especially his dad and brother) we cease to exist for the most part. He is no help with the kids, and it's near impossible to get his attention. This road trip he's decide
A few months ago, my wife decided that I have ADHD. After some reading on the subject, I've come to agree. It seems to explain a lot of the last 20 years we've been together. I'm still having a hard time figuring out what's "me-me" and what's "ADHD-me," and hoping I can get things under control better than I have in the past.
I started coming here after I began a quick google search for an online support group for spouses with adhd. I have been reading for about 2 weeks now and finally decided to register. Sadly I have no drive in me left to type out all that I have been through in the past 13 years. Seriously it is written throughout this board! I can start with me and what I feel is my part in this whole mess. I believe I am the non~adhd'er even though I am the one in counseling and in the past taken medication. I have seen a psychiatrist who dx me with a "mood disorder". Im fine with that.
I've been coming to this site for some time trying to find help in coping with and understanding my partner, who was diagnosed with ADD as a child and whom I'm certain has a pretty bad case of ADHD. Yet she thinks it's a bunch of phooey so won't get help. Our relationship is a lot like others I read on here.
My husband was diagnosed with ADHD about a month and a half ago. I had performed some research on ADHD and realized how it was always there from the day we got married, had our child and present day. He is taking Adderall and it took awhile for him to get the right amount but it seems it has stabilized him.