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My boyfriend (M33)of 2 months with ADHD just broke up with me(f30)

Hello everyone,

I haven't been on the site for a while to read some experiences and was a little shocked when I signed in to see that I first started seeking answers a little over 8 years ago...E.I.G.H.T. YEARS...went by in the blink of an eye.

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Anyone on here have experiences with their ADHD partner and his/her gambling?  

So this ADHD thing was going so well.  At first my husband was resistant to the idea, but little by little he started paying attention and understanding it and recognizing that's what he has.  Two weeks ago he told me how much he loved and appreciated me for doing all this research and learning about ADHD, and for helping him learn about ADHD and how helpful I've been in making changes to how I approach things and sending him reminders and all this stuff.  Then today I texted him about our daughter (who is learning to drive and TERRIFYING me way beyond what her brother did or twin sister is

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I joined the FB page a while ago but never looked at it until yesterday.  I found some of the comments and word choices were eerily familiar.  I'm no detective but after 5 years on this site I've become familiar with some of the long time member's stories and catch phrases etc.  If you want to remain anonymous here, please consider what you post elsewhere.

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Hello,

Hello ADHD fan club.

I'm new here.  I've been fairly gunshy about admitting ADD for most of my life...but when originally diagnosed, there was no H yet if it gives you a timeframe as to how long its been.  Like most of us, I can be very high performing at times and sometimes it's best to just crawl back into bed.  Still, over the years I've gotten enough tricks in to be relatively high performing and to put myself into situations where I'll do well and avoid those where I'll fall. 

I guess I don't have anything helpful here. I just want to talk, so I'll try to keep it as brief as I can manage.

My husband is a great dad, really.  We have four teenagers.  He loves his kids, spends tons of time with them, is super involved, etc, and he has always been like this.  His biggest parenting flaw is that his ADHD tends to make him have disproportionate knee-jerk reactions.  If the kids do something wrong, or I have to relate a problem, he tends to over-react, frequently without knowing all the details, and dole out some ridiculous consequence that he'll completely forget about two days later and won't follow through with.  This is a difficult co-parenting situation.  I want him to back me

This is my first post.  Hubs 51 (untreated ADHD but does acknowledge it, mostly jokingly) and I (50) have been married for 11 years, my second marriage (w/ kids), his first.  I've read a lot on this blog and it's helped me to understand so much about how our brains are wired differently and that we don't each act the way we do to drive the other one bonkers.