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Desperate - HELP

I've been on this forum for years trying to find answers to help my ADHD husband and our marriage.  I sit here with my eyes swollen in tears, my heart and mind battered beyond repair.  All I want is peace and answers to why I had to go thru all this pain and suffering for in the end nothing to change and for me to be an emotional wreck when I was a happy, healthy stable beautiful girl? 

Does anyone know what it feels like when your husband is addicted to porn and interaction with transvestites and escorts (when he has a supermodel joan of arc for a wife)?

The million dollar question...

OK.  So I've spent a lot of time since my girlfriend and I split up just taking time to reconnect with Scott to see where I'm at and define what goals I want to set for myself in the coming months.

I've spent a great deal of time interacting with people on forums like this and I've been writing about some of my experiences online as a way of understanding what really happened in my relationship.  I've taken a close look at the relationship, asked myself some pretty tough questions, and have come up with some very honest answers.

when it just might not work for the adhd partner

Forum: 

I have an impossible time wading through long posts, so I will try to keep this short, as if I had to read it instead of having written it!

I am adhd, diagnosed around 5 years ago, with non-adhd spouse, in 20+ year relationship, personal counseling for most of the last 5 years, couples counseling for 2 or 3 years [time spans are vague for me; time is only a concept] :-).

Hope for Reconciliation

I was married to a person I cared deeply about and was in love with for many years. My marriage has now ended and I believe our problems for the most part were due to a lack of effort in getting help for my ADHD and depression. I never realized how this could affect a marriage until recently. I had a self-diagnosis yet never followed up with it. I have had some depression problems that I have been working on as well. Recently after formally testing off the charts with a psychiatrist did I realize how the deterioration was due in large part to the ADHD.

No more cheating thankfully!

My partner has ADHD and I think in order to save my life he would run into a burning building. But...if he sees a nice looking girl at a discotheque, he  wants to hit on her, flirt, dirty dance and eventually kiss...

He has hit on 4 girls and kissed them. He stopped at the point when tongues were getting involved. 

ADHD and sex

 

Hello everyone! I'm not married to an ADHD person (Chris), but we've
been together for over 7 years. We love each other so much that we
intend to marry when I complete my studies. We have come across many
different problems in our relationship and one of them is sex...Ok, this
is going to be impossible to explain if I don't dive into details, so it
can be a little explicit.

gotta answer this one....

i'll get into a funk. i'll be all sorts of negative. and not focused on anything positive. there are times i'm in that funk for a week or more.

SO sits there so patiently.  sometimes it's too much and he reacts in a not so positive manner, but for the most part he is very patient and just tries to refocus me on the positive.

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