Category Archives: ADHD & Relationships
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Finding the Right Dating Partner When You Have ADHD
Posted on February 14, 2019 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships.By Keath Low In order for the relationship to thrive, you must also be compatible with this person. If you want to maintain the relationship over the long term, you must also address negative patterns that have gotten you in trouble in the past. Finding the Right Partner Beginning to date or re-entering the dating process after a […]
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ADHD Marriage Success Tips: Rekindling and Keeping the Romance Intact
Posted on January 28, 2019 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships, Adult ADD/ADHD.By FastBraiin Staff No matter how well your marriage seems to be, ADHD marriage success tips can help make it better. Relationships can be hard. The closer and longer the relationship, the more difficult and challenging it can become to keep making it work. After all, a significant number of marriages fail and end in divorce. […]
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Yes, you should schedule your partner in!
Posted on December 3, 2018 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships, Adult ADD/ADHD.Too many couples fall out of love because they forget this simple idea. In our hyped-up, information overload, too-many-things-to-do world it is way too easy to lose track of one’s partner. You might be reading the news in bed on your tablet, answering the phone at the dinner table, working on the weekends, or simply […]
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Sick of Arguing? It Might Be Time For a Smarter Compromise
Posted on February 5, 2018 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships.By Melissa Orlov, Nancie Kohlenberger, LMFT When it comes to having good fights with your partner, it’s important to understand that more than half of your battles are unresolvable. They result from deep differences in opinion or approach. A common non-ADHD/ADHD difference, for example, has to do with what constitutes “adequately organized” — whether it […]
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11 ADD/ADHD Behaviors That Could Be Killing Your Marriage
Posted on January 5, 2018 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships.By Sheri Stritof Many times an adult is diagnosed with ADD or ADHD after a child is diagnosed. Then light bulbs go off in the other spouse’s head as behaviors that hurt and sabotage the marriage are recognized as symptoms of ADHD and not a lack of caring or motivation. Even with this awareness, the […]
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Dating with ADHD: When do I tell a new partner about my health condition?
Posted on December 28, 2017 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships.By Terena Bell very relationship has its questions of timing: How many dates do you go on before sex? When should you allow your date to pick up the check? How early is too early to tell him you have ADHD? That last one isn’t a question for every new relationship. But it is for […]
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Sick of Arguing? It Might Be Time For a Smarter Compromise
Posted on December 25, 2017 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships.By Melissa Orlov, Nancie Kohlenberger, LMFT When it comes to having good fights with your partner, it’s important to understand that more than half of your battles are unresolvable. They result from deep differences in opinion or approach. A common non-ADHD/ADHD difference, for example, has to do with what constitutes “adequately organized” — whether it […]
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Feeling Antisocial? Alone? Both? 3 Common ADHD Friendship Challenges
Posted on July 27, 2017 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships.By Sandy Maynard Maintaining friendships is hard work for most adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It means making commitments and following through, neither of which are big strengths of ours. If we wind up canceling or, worse, forgetting about a coffee date or movie night altogether, we feel guilty, frustrated, and worse than […]
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Growing Up, I Never Knew My Sister Had ADHD
Posted on February 20, 2017 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships, ADHD Children, Teens & Students.By Jennie Friedman Growing up in the same household with someone doesn’t mean you share the exact same childhood. Take my sister and me; we couldn’t be more different. When one sibling has undiagnosed attention deficit, and the other does not, the nature-versus-nurture divide becomes readily apparent. I am the older of us two, by […]
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ADHD and Relationships: The Other Partner
Posted on February 16, 2017 by CoachRudy in ADHD & Relationships, Adult ADD/ADHD.By Larry Maucieri Ph.D., ABPP-CN In self-help resources on adult ADHD (including this blog), we usually focus on the people who have ADHD, and their struggles and experiences. How, for instance, does ADHD impact their work? Home life? Relationships? What we don’t talk much about are the others in the intimate relationships. The partners, spouses, […]
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