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I see so many families in ruin, or unhappy marriages, on this site. I can't believe it's all doom and gloom...

While living with attention-deficit is never easy (from either side of the fence), I wanted to take a moment, push the "pause" button on the negativity and sadness, and focus on what we all love about our marriages and our spouses. If you're on this site or this forum, it's for a reason, right? Just like you got married for a reason.

Sigh....feeling such a huge lump in the pit of my stomach...fear?  I don't know...just need a shoulder to lean on right now.

I would appreciate any advice.  I am desperately in love with my girlfriend who has ADHD, recently, and finally diagnosed.  She has grown up believing, and everyone else too, believing that her behavior was just "her."  She's EXTREMELY impulsive, impatient, and inattentive.  She is also the life of every social situation, and a short, drop dead knockout.  Her petite size and beauty (in my opinion) have afforded her certain acceptance and forgiveness for her decisions/actions from everyone. 

Hello,

Does anyone know of a support group for spouses of ADHD, located within reasonable driving distance from the Portland, OR area?

Hello

I have mentioned my story before and its been over a month now that my wife has left and gone to live with her parents with my 2 little children. I continue to go to therapy, take my meds and even going to get a hopefully full psych eval to confirm adhd, that I have been diagnosed with, and maybe even add more things to it.

Hi, I just found this site and started reading peoples posts. It brings me confort to know i'm not the only person dealing with a spouse diagnosed with ADD. I've been married for over 10yrs and always new there was something wrong with my relationship with my husband. He is a very passive person and avoids conflict if at all possible. We do not communicate well at all. I', constantly reminding him about what weve talked about plans weve made and soooo on.

I am very new to visiting this site.  My wife had found the site and suggested that I read a couple of articles.  The article itself was pretty good.  When I opened this site by the main URL rather than linking from an article...here were/are my some observations.

- Pleasant colors

- Right off the bat I'm defensive.  I feel for the "spouses" on this site...I just get the sense that the site is more geared towards the Non-ADHD spouse.

Hello,

Hello everyone:

I used to post here under a different name and had to discontinue that name due to security reasons.  Things got very difficult for a while and I thought it best that I didn’t use my real name.

This might seem an inappropriate topic for this forum, however, I think it very relevant. I figured out my alcoholism long before I figured out my ADHD. I spent many years in AA meetings and working the 12 steps and learning about myself. I learned to say or at least think, "I could be wrong." I learned to figure out my most blatent "character defects" and work on correcting them.